The Democratic Confederation of ABC is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Avis Axl with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.082 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, liberal, 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 1,990 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 164,718 Unoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are less concerned with policy and more concerned with whether politicians "call 'em like they see 'em", pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits, boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers', and military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies. 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 359^th in the world and 266^th in The North Pacific for Most World Assembly Endorsements, with 305 valid endorsements.