The Gilded Lands of Alamei is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Eliana Marchesi with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.521 billion Alameians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lockwood. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Alameian economy, worth a remarkable 5,039 trillion Norrels a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 258,171 Norrels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

What goes down must come up, you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news. Crime is totally unknown. Alamei's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alamei is ranked 1,748^th in the world and 2^nd in The Versutian Federation for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 846.32 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.