The Banana Republic of Greater Ale Permars is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by President Robert Rodriguez with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.569 billion Greater Ale Permarsians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lyns. The average income tax rate is 60.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Greater Ale Permarsian economy, worth 275 trillion Permarks a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 107,217 Permarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is currently revamping its entire education system, adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, the government spends twice as much reclaiming lost settlements from the sea as it could've on coastal defences, and hell is not always other people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Ale Permars's national animal is the Jaguar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Universalism.

Greater Ale Permars is ranked 128,728^th in the world and 5,534^th in The North Pacific for Highest Food Quality, scoring 14.2 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.