The Maritime Empire of Almitruz is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Erik Laurier with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, frequent executions, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working population of 3.216 billion Almitrixes are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Steelport. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Almitruzian economy, worth 491 trillion Almitrizian Liberos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 152,751 Almitrizian Liberos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them, and minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Almitruz's national animal is the Harpy Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Almitruz is ranked 12,298^th in the world and 6^th in Liberal Democratic Union for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 6,530.78 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.