The Populgoverne of Alcantaria is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.452 billion Alqantarianes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cive du Alqantarie. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Alqantariana economy, worth a remarkable 1,641 trillion Qantares a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 113,560 Qantares, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property, the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, and re-education centers are being added to most prisons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alcantaria's national animal is the Ocele, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alcantaria is ranked 53,412^th in the world and 189^th in Forest for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 4,574.35 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.