The Empire of Avios is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the Honorable Chairman with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 40.245 billion Avioans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avios City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Aviosian economy, worth an astonishing 10,183 trillion Gelds a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 253,041 Gelds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Clergy never mention brand names for fear of losing their government subsidies, theories abound over why conspiracy theorists are being arrested, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, and stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Avios's national animal is the White Pelican, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Christianity.

Avios is ranked 293,851^st in the world and 37^th in Hartfelden for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -49.24 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.