The Alex is a miscreant of West Pace is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 3.204 billion West Paceans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gneisenau is trash. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The frighteningly efficient West Pacean economy, worth 465 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 145,193 Dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 810,807 per year while the poor average 12,954, a ratio of 62.6 to 1.

Citizens' names are redacted on their IDs for national security, corruption is a game of two halves, airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, and parents dread their examinations more than their children. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. West Pace's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

West Pace is ranked 54,548^th in the world and 2,802^nd in Balder for Highest Food Quality, scoring 32.04 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.