The Empire of Alexein is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 47.256 billion Alexeinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Environment, although Education, Welfare, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. The average income tax rate is 75.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alexeinian economy, worth a remarkable 5,198 trillion Denars a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 110,010 Denars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art, if there's something strange in your neighborhood you call Brancaland, lonely children write fanfiction about absent fathers, and elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation. Crime is totally unknown. Alexein's national animal is the horse and song bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Alexein is ranked 4,716^th in the world and 1^st in Somathrace for Most Cultured, scoring 169 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.