The Federal Republic of Aalander is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Director Isebrand Calloven with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.325 billion Aalandites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Algernon. The average income tax rate is 81.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Aalandite economy, worth 74.8 trillion Marques a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,484 Marques, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in Algernon's playgrounds, the arms industry is strictly regulated, and the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aalander's national animal is the Brown bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Aalander is ranked 280,356^th in the world and 6,132^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -10.51 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.