The Holy black christmas Easter of Alpha Centouri is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, pith helmet sales, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.065 billion Alpha Centourians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Proxima Centauri B. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Alpha Centourian economy, worth a remarkable 3,154 trillion Gold bars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an amazing 391,191 Gold bars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,329,604 per year while the poor average 8,174, a ratio of 407 to 1.

Pre-schoolers who draw stick figures of their favorite celebrities are sued for infringing image rights, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, weird texts received at 2 a.m. are probably from the government, and nihilistic thrill-seekers claim that suicide by roller coaster is the ultimate life experience. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Alpha Centouri's national animal is the Bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Alpha Centouri is ranked 331,338^th in the world and 17,721^st in Osiris for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -35.07 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.