The Sovereign State of Independent Alignments is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Chancellor Hugh Devodias with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 7.233 billion IAs enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berth. The average income tax rate is 53.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient IA economy, worth 802 trillion IA centimes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 110,984 IA centimes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Berth to enjoy their national art, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments, and the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Independent Alignments's national animal is the gazelle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Independent Alignments is ranked 277,199^th in the world and 647^th in 10000 Islands for Most Primitive, scoring -302.98 on the Scary Big Number Scale.