The Allied States of Atsvea is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Kristopher Alger with a fair hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.325 billion Atsveans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alsdeglarr. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Vinnic economy, worth a remarkable 1,202 trillion Sves a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 190,097 Sves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

"Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster, Vinnic husbands are dead good at fathering kids, tours to see the 'wild men of the mountains' are popular with tourists from the big cities, and "Idol-Worship for the Apathetic" workshops are cancelled when no-one bothers to show up. Crime is totally unknown. Atsvea's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Vinnic Humanist Naturalism.

Atsvea is ranked 23,649^th in the world and 66^th in Forest for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 4,804.88 on the Hickory Productivity Index.