The Soviet Socialist Republic of Alinore is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Comrade Steele with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, daily referendums, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, cheerful population of 2.986 billion Alinoreans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Columbia. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Alinorean economy, worth 537 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 179,866 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Referenda are held for every conceivable government action, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, government officials are held to the highest standard of morality, and bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alinore's national animal is the buck, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Alinore is ranked 5,675^th in the world and 106^th in The Communist Bloc for Smartest Citizens, with 122.36 quips per hour.