The Federation of Alverso is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by State Overseer with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, parental licensing program, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.331 billion Alversoans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jurong. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61.2%.

The all-consuming Alversoan economy, worth 201 trillion Slips 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. 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 151,145 Slips, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 490,062 per year while the poor average 35,175, a ratio of 13.9 to 1.

Women who display their ankles are shunned by society, police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races, even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious, and the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alverso's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Alversoianism.

Alverso is ranked 6,535^th in the world and 88^th in the Pacific for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 11,187.48 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.