The People's Federation of Aveistan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Federal Executive Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.283 billion Avestanis 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ornithopolis. The average income tax rate is 88.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Aveistanian economy, worth 117 trillion Feathers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 91,241 Feathers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Euthanasia is legal, The Federal Executive Council has been known to make speeches in fishing waders, political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, and the freedom to be free is always just out of reach. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aveistan's national animal is the Aveistani eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Avistani folk religion.

Aveistan is ranked 202,026^th in the world and 2,718^th in the South Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3.22 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.