DCOPolis was originally developed to provide a testbed for comparing Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) algorithms in a sterile environment. It was the authors' opinion (along with many in the DCOP community) that existing metrics for comparing solution techniques did not adequately capture the many intricacies inherent in such a problem. A byproduct of this testbed is a framework in which a single representation of a DCOP problem can be solved by a multitude of different solution algorithms, either in simulation or deployed on a live (possibly ad-hoc) network.