The Democratic Republic of Paradise Alcove is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by MrAlcove with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 18.347 billion Paradise Alcoveans 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of AlcoveCity. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.6%.

The powerhouse Paradise Alcovean economy, worth a remarkable 1,836 trillion euros a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 100,098 euros, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 390,850 per year while the poor average 17,485, a ratio of 22.4 to 1.

The Paradise Alcovean Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, newly-peaceful nations are forced to use assault rifles as farming tools due to a lack of funds for purchasing anything else, and washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paradise Alcove's national animal is the bull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Paradise Alcove is ranked 19,291^st in the world and 97^th in Nederland for Largest Populations, with 18.3 billion capita.