The Capital City of Alwood is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Mayor Robert Evans with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.317 billion Faradutans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.7%.

The powerhouse Faradutan economy, worth 270 trillion ⒹDuts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is 81,407 ⒹDuts, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

Pregnant women make easy targets, group photos of the members of parliament are often mistaken for family reunions, Mayor Robert Evans has just been declared ruler of Alwood in an international press conference, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Alwood's national animal is the Lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Faratian Christianity.

Alwood is ranked 116,772^nd in the world and 3,259^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 65 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.