The United Republic of Abalucia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Abigail Founders with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 10.396 billion Abalucians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Drayton. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Abalucian economy, worth a remarkable 1,548 trillion Merits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 148,910 Merits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One can walk from one side of Drayton to the other without setting foot on Abalucian soil, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, healthcare workers are flummoxed over the spike in foreign tourists with sudden-onset heart disease, and new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Abalucia's national animal is the Dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Senalism.

Abalucia is ranked 244,964^th in the world and 996^th in Europe for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -5.44 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.