The Holy Black Empire of United People of Alvalade is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pater with an iron fist, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, free-roaming dinosaurs, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.179 billion United People of Alvaladeans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alvalade. The average income tax rate is 85.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong United People of Alvaladean economy, worth 114 trillion Alvabucks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 97,384 Alvabucks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

They say marriage really does shorten your life, blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love, there is a law against "filthy foreign food", and adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United People of Alvalade's national animal is the White Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

United People of Alvalade is ranked 54,519^th in the world and 2,181^st in Osiris for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,956.96 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.