The Curious Girl of Alice Hargreaves is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its digital currency, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.715 billion Alice Hargreavesians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 70.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Alice Hargreavesian economy, worth 475 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,967 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony, there's more pink stuff on sale these days, it's rare to find an unchewed pencil, and Blackacrean security services are wondering why Leader is so fond of the numbers 6, 7 and 9. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alice Hargreaves's national animal is the rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alice Hargreaves is ranked 306,382^nd in the world and 6^th in Underland for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -14.17 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.