The Japanese Empire of Aluvitar is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Tokugawa Ienari with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, infamous sell-swords, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.598 billion Japanese are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Edo. The average income tax rate is 80.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Japanese economy, worth a remarkable 1,996 trillion Yen a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 136,738 Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Angry disenfranchised AIs attempt to hijack the bodies of comatose hospital patients, notable individuals are granted land and titles, only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens, and homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aluvitar's national animal is the Crane, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shintoism.

Aluvitar is ranked 13,160^th in the world and 5^th in Pax Britannia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,340.95 pounds of wildlife per square mile.