The Socialist tree people's of Alire is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Kupa-Lenox with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 4.074 billion Alireans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Harappa. The average income tax rate is 85.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alirean economy, worth 495 trillion Golden coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 121,583 Golden coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids, science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and political spontaneity takes a lot of planning. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alire's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Treeism.

Alire is ranked 157,821^st in the world and 3,381^st in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 305.8 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.