The United Socialist States of Advera Dar is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.63 billion Advera Darians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Advera Darian economy, worth 26.5 trillion rubles 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 Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 16,255 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists are pillars of society, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, military spending recently hit a new high, and the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Advera Dar's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Advera Dar is ranked 177,617^th in the world and 1^st in The Silver Isles for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 397.58 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.