The United Socialist States of Alistella is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Alkane Solar with an even hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.346 billion Alistelliats are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tritium. The average income tax rate is 78.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alistellan economy, worth 228 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 97,545 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub, news headlines suggest that Alkane Solar has a sideline in guinea pig pimping, and protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alistella's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Alistella is ranked 16,246^th in the world and 411^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 8,902.87 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.