The Ancient Imperium of Alistia is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Arawn Ymerawdwr Tywyll yr Isfyd with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 24.959 billion Alistians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Teml Awyr. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Alistian economy, worth a remarkable 6,411 trillion Doegs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 256,862 Doegs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment, missionaries learn the hard way that their piercing spiritual insights are no match for arrows, and adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alistia's national animal is the Akhal-Teke, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Ecclesia Hominibus.

Alistia is ranked 6,254^th in the world and 1^st in The Mystical Alliance for Least Corrupt Governments, with 94.8 percentage of bribes refused.