The Community of Alvestad is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.6 billion Alvestadians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of drug vally. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Alvestadian economy, worth a remarkable 4,988 trillion notings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 202,788 notings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions, and hell is not always other people. Crime is totally unknown. Alvestad's national animal is the with ekedog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shamanism.

Alvestad is ranked 30,255^th in the world and 734^th in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 85.2 law-abiding acts per hour.