The People's Republic of Alangrad is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Premier Alan with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.499 billion Alangradians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alantropolis. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Alangradian economy, worth a remarkable 5,942 trillion Alanmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Retail, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 409,847 Alanmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Alangrad will pay them to stop, getting an autograph has become harder than ever, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, and small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists. Crime is totally unknown. Alangrad's national animal is the Moose, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Marxism-Alanism.

Alangrad is ranked 84,535^th in the world and 48^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 2,465.92 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.