The Spice Empire of Greater Avaria is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Supreme Dictator Shogun with an even hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 4.973 billion Greater Avarians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Etriyar. The average income tax rate is 38.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Greater Avarian economy, worth 357 trillion Spice Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,977 Spice Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities, the full title of Hon Supreme Dictator Shogun Vcte Mgve MF SEGALM GCGAE runs to several pages, everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen, and the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Avaria's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shogunism.

Greater Avaria is ranked 46,123^rd in the world and 49^th in The Hole To Hide In for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 3,351.33 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.