The Democratic Republic of Pavolis is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by San Diego with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.783 billion Pavo Lis are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lethero. The average income tax rate is 79.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Pavolisian economy, worth 252 trillion Polars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 90,574 Polars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation sends criminals home to think about what they did, business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters, you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly, and citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pavolis's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Liero.

Pavolis is ranked 24,781^st in the world and 1,256^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 83 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.