The Maritime Empire of Alenshire is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Baron Albany with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 15.433 billion pirates enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government prioritizes Industry, with Education, Defense, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alentis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.9%.

The frighteningly efficient pirate economy, worth a remarkable 3,594 trillion gold quills a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 232,896 gold quills, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,112,913 per year while the poor average 28,581, a ratio of 38.9 to 1.

In coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho), children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest, the best defense is a good fence, and the internal market is thriving. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Alenshire's national animal is the leviathan, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cult of Dionysus.

Alenshire is ranked 693^rd in the world and 1^st in The Capital Republic for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 23,365.63 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.