The Community of Alvestad is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 28.277 billion Alvestadians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of drug vally. The income tax rate is 100%.
The frighteningly efficient Alvestadian economy, worth a remarkable 6,106 trillion notings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 215,958 notings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, passengers often cause a stink on public transport, entomologists flock to drug vally for its remarkable gadfly population, and student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned with ekedogball fields. Crime is totally unknown. Alvestad's national animal is the with ekedog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shamanism.
Alvestad is ranked 59th in the world and 1st in Balder for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 313.03 on the Kitten Softness Rating.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned with ekedogball fields.
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, entomologists flock to drug vally for its remarkable gadfly population.
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, passengers often cause a stink on public transport.
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery.
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, environmentalists are staging large protests in front of reopened nuclear power plants.
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Alvestadian grocery store.
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, military officials are questioning the policy of ceding the nation's territory in exchange for promises not to invade it.
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, artists count down the years until Leader is allowed to listen to their music.
- : Following new legislation in Alvestad, what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other.
- : Alvestad was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Economic Output.