The Federal Republic of Altulan is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its national health service, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.858 billion Altulans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 62.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Altulanian economy, worth 102 trillion Dollars a year, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,246 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, and saying "don't do anything that Leader wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Altulan's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Altulan is ranked 48,104^th in the world and 616^th in the West Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 695.94 pounds of wildlife per square mile.