The Borderlands of Aivlon is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 383 million Aivlonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Silver Star City. The average income tax rate is 83.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Aivlonian economy, worth 12.3 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 32,009 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class, unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, and it's harder to qualify for IVF than for a good university. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aivlon's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aivlon is ranked 18,359^th in the world and 91^st in Conch Kingdom for Safest, scoring 114.78 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.