The Kingdom of Alvissaras is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 14 million Alvissarasians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 37.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Alvissarasian economy, worth 309 billion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 22,138 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School lockers are filled with fancy underwear, seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts, artists count down the years until Leader is allowed to listen to their music, and landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks. Crime is totally unknown. Alvissaras's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alvissaras is ranked 80,760^th in the world and 54^th in Portugal for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.