The Federation of Alsion is a massive, safe nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and vat-grown people. The compassionate, cheerful population of 4.991 billion Alsionians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Als. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Alsionian economy, worth 998 trillion Florins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 200,061 Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, and national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alsion's national animal is the Wulf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alsion is ranked 282,387^th in the world and 6,147^th in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 0.47 flags saluted per person per day.