The Reborn Elven Republic of Sylh Alanor is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Radhmael Silvehn with a fair hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.53 billion Alanori 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arlathan. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Alanori economy, worth 699 trillion planets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 154,359 planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, organ donation is compulsory, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime is totally unknown. Sylh Alanor's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Zyqxuwy.

Sylh Alanor is ranked 1,486^th in the world and 4^th in Refugia for Most Developed, scoring 98.06 on the Human Development Index.