The United States of Paovoa is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Dag Paries with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.614 billion Paovoans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Torbaskel. The average income tax rate is 54.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Paovoan economy, worth 383 trillion Paovoan Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 146,687 Paovoan Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

A faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, machine gun nests are the latest must-have gardening trend, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, and bleach is the nation's most common pesticide. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paovoa's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Paovoa is ranked 297,548^th in the world and 11,886^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -276.8 on the Scary Big Number Scale.