The Republic of Alcornia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Maximum Leader with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, public floggings, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, humorless population of 40.176 billion Alcornians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The tiny, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Healthcare, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alcornius. The average income tax rate is 2.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alcornian economy, worth an astonishing 13,452 trillion thalers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 334,832 thalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Code enforcement officers circle wealthy Alcornians like vultures, Maximum Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, and government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Alcornia's national animal is the panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alcornia is ranked 281,421^st in the world and 3^rd in 000 for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.63 kickbacks per hour.