The People's Republic of Altorda is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 239 million Altordans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 44.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Altordan economy, worth 6.87 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,731 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, and a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Altorda's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Altorda is ranked 129,452^nd in the world and 188^th in The Kodiak Republic for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 823.54 on the Gilded Widget Scale.