The Free and Equal States of of Avalonium is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Al Gore with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, otherworldly petting zoo, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 2.097 billion Avaloniumians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Eden-Vibonia. The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Avaloniumian economy, worth 273 trillion Vivat Gloriosa Vibonias a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 130,308 Vivat Gloriosa Vibonias, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A video of Al Gore wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, the military's newest anti-tank strategy is throwing a landmine like a frisbee, in a baffling press conference Al Gore proudly dismantled a broken door, and shaking a stone out of your shoe is considered to be dangerously risqué. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Avalonium's national animal is the Vibonia est Aeterna, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of Perot.

Avalonium is ranked 6,826^th in the world and 22^nd in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 93.45 Effective Tax Rate.