The Constitucional Monarchy of Althne is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Princess Saraiva with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 901 million Althneans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, with Law & Order, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Environment isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Siena. The average income tax rate is 54.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Althnean economy, worth 90.9 trillion Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 100,870 Rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds, and female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Althne's national animal is the Eilf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Althne is ranked 61,464^th in the world and 118^th in Starlight for Most Developed, scoring 73.85 on the Human Development Index.