The Corporate Protectorate of Mining Colony Alpha 7 is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by the Company with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, infamous sell-swords, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.437 billion Alpharians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grand Bay. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Alpharian economy, worth 537 trillion marks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 220,540 marks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,027,942 per year while the poor average 2,470, a ratio of 820 to 1.

Alpharian companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation, citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed, foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas, and multiple births are a cause of celebration for tax collectors. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Mining Colony Alpha 7's national animal is the badger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Capitalism.

Mining Colony Alpha 7 is ranked 81,750^th in the world and 80^th in The Frontier Sea for Largest Black Market, with 4.12 trillion Standard Monetary Units.