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The Empire of Aleph-Y is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Kyle XY BroflovskReese with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.181 billion Alephs 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jerusalem. The average income tax rate is 85.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aleph-Yian economy, worth 452 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 142,282 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, not all rivers run to the sea, kindhearted Alephs generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries, and the government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aleph-Y's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Judaism.

Aleph-Y is ranked 9,074^th in the world and 1^st in Aleph XY for Most Developed, scoring 91.16 on the Human Development Index.