The Nomadic Peoples of Alvarin is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 389 million Alvarinians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 18.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Alvarinian economy, worth 18.7 trillion lire a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 48,042 lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force. Alvarin's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alvarin is ranked 220,658^th in the world and 12^th in Rings Around Uranus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -4 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.