The Celestial Otters of Alainian Federation is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, lack of airports, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.478 billion Alainian Federationians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 76.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Alainian Federationian economy, worth 117 trillion Argents a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 47,482 Argents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads, foreign leaders with unpaid parking tickets are often refused entry, blue bloods are welcome in Alainian Federation, and truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alainian Federation's national animal is the Alainian Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Alainian Federation is ranked 49,188^th in the world and 162^nd in Starlight for Most Cultured, scoring 72 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.