The Helpdesk of Avalnier is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Bobo The Omniscient Chaos Overlord with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, enslaved workforce, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 26.771 billion Avalnierians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuzzybottom. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Avalnierian economy, worth an astonishing 18,302 trillion Chocolate Chip Pancakes a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 683,681 Chocolate Chip Pancakes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,345,554 per year while the poor average 146,260, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

Religious people are committed to mental institutions for treatment, graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation', murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated, and mandatory neutering has made purebred dogs a thing of the past. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Avalnier's national animal is the Big Bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Holy haberdashery of Batman.

Avalnier is ranked 6,392^nd in the world and 319^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 9,894.62 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.