The Armed Republic of Sweet Rome Alabama is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The devout population of 6.626 billion Sweet Rome Alabamans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 56.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sweet Rome Alabaman economy, worth 277 trillion Crunchy Corns a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,870 Crunchy Corns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, ritual mummification is making a comeback, and Sweet Rome Alabama recently decided against having a capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sweet Rome Alabama's national animal is the Big Bark Boys, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sweet Rome Alabama is ranked 102,759^th in the world and 4,051^st in Balder for Highest Food Quality, scoring 22.55 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.