The Spice Empire of Greater Avaria is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Supreme Dictator Shogun with an even hand, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, compulsory military service, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed population of 3.639 billion Greater Avarians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Etriyar. The average income tax rate is 30.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Greater Avarian economy, worth 278 trillion Spice Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,549 Spice Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Asking a friend if they like watermelons is a potentially criminal act, wood-framed catapults are ready to launch diseased corpses into besieged cities, fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, and Shogunism has been named as Greater Avaria's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Avaria's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shogunism.

Greater Avaria is ranked 47,565^th in the world and 35^th in The Hole To Hide In for Most Corrupt Governments, with 42.92 kickbacks per hour.