The Federation of Albertstadt is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Reichskanzler Haliwell with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 18.253 billion Albertstadtians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dresden. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Albertstadtian economy, worth a remarkable 2,460 trillion Denariis a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 134,792 Denariis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, where there's smoke there's the Albertstadtian Forestry Department, urban planners beg for just one more lane before bedtime, and entomologists flock to Dresden for its remarkable gadfly population. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Albertstadt's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is is not a government delcaration.

Albertstadt is ranked 321,421^st in the world and 62^nd in Gay for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -11.03 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.