Alamein
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Alamein is basically a mix of the Athenian democratic city-state (without all that crap with women, those under 30, those who earn less than N not allowed to vote), Switzerland, Victorian Britain's good parts, a small amount of Ancient Roman influence, and some of my own invention. It's a culture which prides intelligence and achievement, and those who don't do either through no fault of their own aren't looked down upon - just helped to start doing both. It runs on a sort of semi-Socialist system (government runs some industries, corporations run others, government provides all essentials like housing and food free to the populace).
Immigration is encouraged as long as they share the vision of Alamein, which is to eventually have a world culture not based on money.
The government began funded scientific research at the outset, in a wise prediction - setting the best minds of the original settlers to work on specific problems such as what causes disease. Those who left the Alam Empire were the intellectual elite of the Alam dictatorship, and many more refugees from Alam came to Alamein during the first few years of it's formation in the 1600s. Alamein continues to be the European technological capital and at the height of technology. Combined with immigrants from other European countries around this period, Alamein's population quickly grew from a few thousand people to a a few million.
Despite the intelligence, free-thinking, and freedom of the Alameinian culture, it did (and still does) have it's problems today. Alamein children are brought up to believe they can do anything if they put effort and thought into it - and this has of course become a national mindset, stirring feelings of unconscious arrogance, overconfidence and elitism over those who aren't as 'developed' in their eyes. This mostly includes those from dictatorships, even benevolent ones, and any nation ruled with force. This of course is mostly overcome, and Alamein has no problems with international relations (except with Fascist nations, which they hate for obvious reasons)
Alamein's arrogance was at a height in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They began an expansion policy to bring the rest of the world to culture - which they mostly succeeded. From the mid-19th century they controlled one of the largest empires in the world, although it was mostly freed from the rule of Alamein after that period (these became the Commonwealth nations, close allies of Alamein). Three nations in various parts of the world also remained parts of the Empire following polls of the entire adult population in those nations.
Alamein's government system would have you believe that all decisions are taken by a national vote. Although most of them are, that isn't strictly true. Decisions of trade, and national DEFENCE (first-strike requires a vote, however) and relations with other nations are taken as direct vote of the Council and High Council. Currently the government is dominated by the Light Party, which is the original 'spirit' of Alamein (officially the Enlightenment Party, but this name is almost never used now, even by senior members of the government).
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