The Allurement of Alluvial is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Steno with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.499 billion Alluvialians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Diluvium. The average income tax rate is 72.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Alluvialian economy, worth a remarkable 4,138 trillion Muds 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an amazing 212,258 Muds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards, children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet, years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, and the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alluvial's national animal is the Hypnotist, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sedimentology.

Alluvial is ranked 308,489^th in the world and 12,723^rd in Lazarus for Most Secular, with 2.67 Atheism Rate.