The Star confederation of Alsidia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Sir President Frederic von Hochbach with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 11.903 billion Alsidians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Helsinki. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Alsidian economy, worth a remarkable 2,475 trillion Alsidian Hacks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 207,951 Alsidian Hacks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Alsidians suffer not the eggplant emoji to live, becoming a missionary is a sure-fire route to martyrdom, the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, and jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alsidia's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Swantonism.

Alsidia is ranked 173,466^th in the world and 238^th in Commonwealth of Liberty for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 168.92 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.