The Incorporated States of Landing Site Alpha is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Mission Commander Joan Carter with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 34.348 billion Alpha Landers 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Education, with Environment, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Space Elevator Anchorage One. The average income tax rate is 37.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Alpha Landish economy, worth a remarkable 8,082 trillion inflation adjusted kroes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an amazing 235,316 inflation adjusted kroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Evasive politicians don't fail to strongly commit to not committing to a course of non-inaction, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, and bizarre-looking creatures called 'quaggadogs' dominate wildlife preserves. Crime is totally unknown. Landing Site Alpha's national animal is the quagga, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Landing Site Alpha is ranked 2,539^th in the world and 108^th in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3,277.52 pounds of wildlife per square mile.