The Republic of Alert Station is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its burgeoning Polar Bear population. The hard-working, cynical population of 470 million Alert Stationians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 29.6%.

The Alert Stationian economy, worth 20.1 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 42,738 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alert Station's national animal is the Polar Bear.

Alert Station is ranked 154,917^th in the world and 78^th in Atlanticana for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 525.3 on the Gilded Widget Scale.