The United Socialist States of Protivandes Almar is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 223 million Almarians 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, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Almarian economy, worth 17.9 trillion comecoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is 80,460 comecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, worrywarts have started advocating for a paint ban, and foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Protivandes Almar's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Protivandes Almar is ranked 262,524^th in the world and 6,338^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.36 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.