The Equitable Free Society of Aionia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Aionian Leadership Council with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 20.473 billion Aionians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cathodica. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Aionian economy, worth a remarkable 2,180 trillion Aionic Centums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 106,513 Aionic Centums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", and the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aionia's national animal is the Aionian forest cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aionia is ranked 262,504^th in the world and 4,852^nd in the South Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -199.3 on the Scary Big Number Scale.