The Place of Adavan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and daily referendums. The compassionate, cheerful population of 27.495 billion Adavanians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Environment, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bearlin. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Adavanian economy, worth a remarkable 5,395 trillion Pennies 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 mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 196,232 Pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Bearlin Times is sold out, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, and bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of. Crime is totally unknown. Adavan's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Adavan is ranked 1,247^th in the world and 26^th in The East Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 4,678.73 pounds of wildlife per square mile.