The Federal Republic of Altan-Ura is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.297 billion Altan-Urans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Constantia. The average income tax rate is 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Altan-Uran economy, worth 153 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 118,186 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is currently revamping its entire education system, the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos, the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities, and Leader has more friends than ever before. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Altan-Ura's national animal is the bison, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Altan-Ura is ranked 11,579^th in the world and 298^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,452.16 pounds of wildlife per square mile.