The Colony of Awai is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 12.905 billion Stork-Keepers 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 medium-sized government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Spirituality, and Administration also on the agenda, while Industry is ignored. The average income tax rate is 21.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Awaiian economy, worth 415 trillion Awaiian cowrie shells a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,169 Awaiian cowrie shells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader has just been declared ruler of Awai in an international press conference, a major religion has been named as Awai's national religion, park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, and same-sex marriages are increasingly common. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Awai's national animal is the stork, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Awai is ranked 57,647^th in the world and 22^nd in The Eighth Closet for Most Cultured, scoring 70 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.