The Blessed Empire of Almaaz is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 1.615 billion Almaazians 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Almaaz. The average income tax rate is 72.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Almaazian economy, worth 54.2 trillion H2s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 33,587 H2s, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, and a major religion has been named as Almaaz's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Almaaz's national animal is the Aurigaen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Almaaz is ranked 80,272^nd in the world and 30^th in Thegye for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,922.18 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.