The Federation of Alterrum is a titanic, safe nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, digital currency, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 17.315 billion Alterrans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The relatively small government prioritizes Education, with Industry, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Idryll. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alterran economy, worth a remarkable 5,146 trillion mercators a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 297,245 mercators, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, diplomats agree to the terms and conditions of peace treaties without reading them, the government spares every expense for national defence, and all facts are created equal. Crime is totally unknown. Alterrum's national animal is the orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Alterrum is ranked 226,822^nd in the world and 973^rd in Europeia for Highest Drug Use, scoring 75.24 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.