The Transhumanist Dominion of Alice Gardens is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by EngulfedObject with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 24.861 billion Pods are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eclipse Phase. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Alice Gardensian economy, worth a remarkable 9,367 trillion Numeneras a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 376,794 Numeneras, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Only the richest get to see out of their windows, much of Alice Gardens's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, EngulfedObject's new political program is often mockingly called 'Capitalism with a Bigtopian face', and the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alice Gardens's national animal is the Exodite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Transhumanism.

Alice Gardens is ranked 1,122^nd in the world and 43^rd in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 18,227.69 on the Gilded Widget Scale.