The Dominion of Albend is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its frequent executions, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 590 million Albanians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlantis. The average income tax rate is 47.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Albanian economy, worth 54.3 trillion harps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,040 harps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, and signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Albend's national animal is the pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Albend is ranked 99,611^th in the world and 1,848^th in the South Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 13.19 kickbacks per hour.