The Republic of Altavento is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 640 million Altaventoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alveria. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Altaventoan economy, worth 67.5 trillion zephirs a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 105,495 zephirs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elite teams of assassins have been sent into Brasilistan, 'Coloniser-in-Chief' has become Leader's new moniker, the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight, and government expenses are beyond compare. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Altavento's national animal is the peregrine falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Altavento is ranked 235,900^th in the world and 2,299^th in the Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 66.24 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.