The Principality of Altamare is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Princess Bianca III of Altamare with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.37 billion altamareans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marsagno. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient altamarean economy, worth a remarkable 2,250 trillion Altamarean lires a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 240,140 Altamarean lires, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Financial investors are noting a boom in artillery, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, doctors spend more time writing sick notes than caring for the sick, and pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy. Crime is totally unknown. Altamare's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is secularism.

Altamare is ranked 313,909^th in the world and 27^th in Calme Ybovien for Most Conservative, scoring 3.67 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.