The Second Grand Republic of Alesina is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Kamaya Southend with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, disturbing lack of elderly people, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 5.182 billion Alesinans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lucent. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The thriving Alesinan economy, worth 481 trillion lashans a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 92,925 lashans, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, the Cult of Godsinia has been named as Alesina's national religion, orange is the new black for judicial robes, and the sun rises an hour later on border communities. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Alesina's national animal is the phoenix, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is the Cult of Godsinia.

Alesina is ranked 93,756^th in the world and 1^st in Lucent for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,662.49 on the Gilded Widget Scale.