The Department of Allier is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 3.493 billion Bourbonnaises enjoy frequent elections, which are uniformly corrupted by big-spending corporations buying politicians who best suit their interests.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moulins. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The thriving Bourbonnais economy, worth 274 trillion francs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. Average income is 78,581 francs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 258,333 per year while the poor average 17,918, a ratio of 14.4 to 1.

Visitors to Allier are microchipped and must be escorted by a Bourbonnais soldier - even to the bathroom, the citizenship exam requires years of study to actually pass, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, and government opponents tend to have their patents rejected immediately. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Allier's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Allier is ranked 88,496^th in the world and 24^th in Department Store for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,537.62 on the Hickory Productivity Index.