The Community of Alvernau is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.5 billion Alvernauns enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alvernau. The average income tax rate is 89.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Alvernauan economy, worth 742 trillion Alvs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is 98,977 Alvs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One can wake up in Alvernau and have breakfast in Bigtopia, politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot, a flying elephant and Leader share the same nickname, and people can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alvernau's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alvernau is ranked 173,046^th in the world and 19^th in Deutschland for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 584.11 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.