The Republic of Alpise is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Fiord Andersen with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working population of 1.44 billion Alpisens have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fredshare. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alpisean economy, worth 129 trillion Alpinors a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is 89,660 Alpinors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor, tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends, fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising, and roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alpise's national animal is the Mountain Hare, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianism.

Alpise is ranked 280,146^th in the world and 302^nd in Wintreath for Most Extreme, scoring 5.99 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.