The Federation of Alverso is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by State Overseer with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, enslaved workforce, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.348 billion Alversoans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jurong. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.3%.

The all-consuming Alversoan economy, worth 207 trillion Slips a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 153,756 Slips, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 498,529 per year while the poor average 35,783, a ratio of 13.9 to 1.

Even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, and atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alverso's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Alversoianism.

Alverso is ranked 62,468^th in the world and 548^th in the Pacific for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 2,785.68 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.