The Populgoverne of Alcantaria is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, keen interest in outer space, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 26.045 billion Alqantarianes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cive du Alqantarie. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Alqantariana economy, worth a remarkable 3,383 trillion Qantares a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 129,912 Qantares, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There is one competing standard, people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, and the number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alcantaria's national animal is the Ocele, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alcantaria is ranked 5,593^rd in the world and 59^th in Forest for Smartest Citizens, with 123.09 quips per hour.