The Fiefdom of Alsab is a massive, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.082 billion Alsabians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The strong Alsabian economy, worth 62.3 trillion points a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 57,566 points, with the richest citizens earning 8.8 times as much as the poorest.

The constant playing of Merry Birthday on Alsabian radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity, promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Alsab's national animal is the crocodile, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Alsab is ranked 71,800^th in the world and 3^rd in 0 Lakes for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 4,302.22 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.