The Spirit of Alcohol is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Bottle with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, pith helmet sales, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 26.344 billion Alcoholians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deliria. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.2%.

The all-consuming Alcoholian economy, worth a remarkable 3,139 trillion promilles a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 119,183 promilles, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 489,162 per year while the poor average 19,172, a ratio of 25.5 to 1.

The needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, citizens must inform the government each time they have a haircut, Alcohol is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, and economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive. Alcohol's national animal is the Delirium, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alcohol is ranked 26,709^th in the world and 1,602^nd in Osiris for Most Corrupt Governments, with 80.13 kickbacks per hour.