The Confederacy of Alteran Republics is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Albinus Rector with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.788 billion Alterans 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Lantea. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Alteran economy, worth 266 trillion Alteran Credit Ͼs a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 149,091 Alteran Credit Ͼs, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, judges are rumored to find in favor of whoever bribes them the most, a third of Alterans are e-certified CEOs, and family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alteran Republics's national animal is the Alteran Alpine Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alteran Republics is ranked 10,898^th in the world and 45^th in The Western Isles for Healthiest Citizens, with 12.78 Bananas Ingested Per Day.