The Republic of Alternate Void is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 693 million Alternate Voidians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, although Public Transport is also considered important, while Environment and Welfare are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Alternate Voidian economy, worth 62.2 trillion Times a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 89,694 Times, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 631,638 per year while the poor average 4,313, a ratio of 146 to 1.

Illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory, postcards from Alternate Voidian driving test centres are popular souvenirs, private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button, and blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Alternate Void's national animal is the Shadow Kraken, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Alternate Void is ranked 211,637^th in the world and 2^nd in Multicore for Longest Average Lifespans, with 68.93 years.