The Federal Republic of Aldessca is a huge, safe nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 623 million Aldesscans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Heral. The average income tax rate is 29.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Aldesscan economy, worth 69.6 trillion Herals a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 111,662 Herals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties, children dream of becoming physicians and physicists, the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong, and the Aldesscan delegation to the World Assembly is having a hard time convincing people that international law will "pay for itself somehow...". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Aldessca's national animal is the Wildcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aldessca is ranked 130,067^th in the world and 34^th in Ensio for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 859.33 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.