The One World Government of Alpha2 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Secret Chiefs with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, triple-decker prams, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 40.163 billion Alphatians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The minute, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order is also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Stunövall Sprawl. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Alpha2ian economy, worth an astonishing 22,628 trillion Guineas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is a breathtaking 563,420 Guineas, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,254,266 per year while the poor average 21,116, a ratio of 201 to 1.

Garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off, weather reports simply advise Alphatians to 'look outside', and chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Alpha2's national animal is the Tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is egotheism.

Alpha2 is ranked 333,610^th in the world and 53^rd in Scandinavia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 0.7 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.