The Dominion of Albend is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 643 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, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlantis. The average income tax rate is 51.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Albanian economy, worth 58.3 trillion harps a year, is fairly 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 90,712 harps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In court almost every witness is a hostile witness, human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, and the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework. 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 horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Albend is ranked 74,750^th in the world and 1,543^rd in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 103.69 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.