The Community of Alvestad is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 16.103 billion Alvestadians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of drug vally. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Alvestadian economy, worth a remarkable 2,862 trillion notings a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 177,790 notings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's biggest export is stupidity, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, and the Alvestad Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'. Crime is totally unknown. Alvestad's national animal is the with ekedog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shamanism.

Alvestad is ranked 132,851^st in the world and 3,853^rd in the Rejected Realms for Largest Black Market, with 212 billion Standard Monetary Units.