The Dominion of Alteras is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, devout population of 942 million Alterasians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Alterasian economy, worth 38.5 trillion Archons a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,886 Archons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arms Manufacturing facilities are being turned into Elk habitats, reddish-brown is the new black, the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Alteras in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alteras's national animal is the Elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alteras is ranked 227,150^th in the world and 1,003^rd in Europeia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.23 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.