The State of Algone is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, vat-grown people, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.843 billion Algoneans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Public Transport, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.1%.

The very strong Algonean economy, worth 710 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is 65,497 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 198,270 per year while the poor average 16,835, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

Children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, the nation's hospitals are criticized for caring more about profits than patients, students at universities think exercise bikes are pieces of abstract art, and foreign leaders who don't applaud Leader's speeches are regarded as enemies of Algone. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Algone's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Algone is ranked 101,642^nd in the world and 1^st in Feudal Midlands for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,851.45 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.