The Armed Republic of Alamogordo is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 24.075 billion Alamogordoans 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Alamogordoan economy, worth 327 trillion slow neutrons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 13,614 slow neutrons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alamogordo's national animal is the cockroach, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alamogordo is ranked 119,958^th in the world and 4^th in New Mexico for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.71 law-abiding acts per hour.