The Barren Remains of Wasteland Alive is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.414 billion Wastelanders are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, liberal, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Administration, Education, and Public Transport also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nowhere. The average income tax rate is 9.8%.

The strong Wasteland Alivean economy, worth 640 trillion Bottle Caps a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is 51,631 Bottle Caps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail, new cases of Asbestosis are cropping up as quickly as hospitals can deal with them, referenda are banned by law and the Parliament has absolute control of the legislative process, and the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?". Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Wasteland Alive's national animal is the Raider, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Wasteland Alive is ranked 198,096^th in the world and 26^th in The Fallout Wasteland for Most Primitive, scoring -73.69 on the Scary Big Number Scale.