The Free and Equal States of of Avalonium is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Al Gore with a fair hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.04 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 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Avaloniumian economy, worth 255 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 major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 125,276 Vivat Gloriosa Vibonias, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination, prisons in Avalonium are the summer homes of murderers, the New Eden-Vibonia State Museum is said to be haunted by ghastly musicians playing 'Nearer Violet to Thee', and young people crowd pizza parlors praying to 'The Supreme Pizza, His Immaculate Munchiness'. 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 239,556^th in the world and 150^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,215.4 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.