The Kingdom of Alderreich is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, devout population of 625 million Alders are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gnomendorf. The average income tax rate is 69.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Alder economy, worth 17.7 trillion Alder Marks 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 28,380 Alder Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Destitute athletes are forced to train in the street, death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary", women who display their ankles are shunned by society, and umbrellas are back in fashion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alderreich's national animal is the Gnome, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alderreich is ranked 268,936^th in the world and 6,535^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -7.89 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.