The Allied States of Avinis is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 160 million Avinians 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Avinian economy, worth 9.61 trillion dollars 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, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 60,049 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Graffiti graces every city's streets, at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to Leader's wardrobe, Avinis City spends billions upgrading public transport, and the nation's biggest export is stupidity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Avinis's national animal is the orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Avinis is ranked 241,600^th in the world and 89^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 19,456.19 Standard Monetary Units.