The Empire Republic of Alski is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ito Alski with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 8.012 billion Alskians 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 Sapporo. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Alskian economy, worth a remarkable 1,344 trillion Baslas a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 167,761 Baslas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alski's national animal is the Alska dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kitsunism.

Alski is ranked 13,707^th in the world and 198^th in 10000 Islands for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 345.91 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.