The United Socialist States of Almanistan is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its vat-grown people, parental licensing program, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 388 million Almanistanians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Almanistanian economy, worth 26.4 trillion universal Tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is 68,044 universal Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fistfighting vigilantes tend to suffer a lot of gunshot wounds, refugees from other nations are flocking to Almanistan's border, military information leaks are **REDACTED** by **REDACTED** in **REDACTED**, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state. Crime is totally unknown. Almanistan's national animal is the Human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Almanistan is ranked 98,544^th in the world and 276^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 2,441.67 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.