The Democratic Confederation of ABC is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Avis Axl with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 13.241 billion Alphas are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Verum. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Alphasian economy, worth a remarkable 2,178 trillion Unoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 164,504 Unoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

90% of active duty AAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, to say that military robots are inclined towards violence is offensive, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in ABC, and ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. ABC's national animal is the Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is DEMOCRACY.

ABC is ranked 303,657^th in the world and 13,468^th in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -14.21 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.