The People's Republic of Alangrad is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Premier Alan with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, daily referendums, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 11.515 billion Alangradians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, corrupt, liberal government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alantropolis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Alangradian economy, worth a remarkable 5,319 trillion Alanmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 461,978 Alanmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings, and reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Alangrad's national animal is the Moose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Marxism-Alanism.

Alangrad is ranked 400^th in the world and 2^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 23,666.71 on the Gilded Widget Scale.