The Republic of Alcoran is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.826 billion Alcoranians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 75.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alcoranian economy, worth a remarkable 1,354 trillion 9003s a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 153,473 9003s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, and soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alcoran's national animal is the 9003, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alcoran is ranked 14,273^rd in the world and 1^st in acceptors for Lowest Crime Rates, with 94.99 law-abiding acts per hour.