The Commonwealth of Aanbreck Aurora is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Al McGovern with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.085 billion Aurorans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tavares. The average income tax rate is 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Auroran economy, worth 479 trillion sols a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 94,380 sols, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, tax revenue is often intercepted by international accountants before ever seeing the national treasury, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aanbreck Aurora's national animal is the manatee, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Secularism.

Aanbreck Aurora is ranked 43,408^th in the world and 55^th in Eurth for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,432.73 on the Gilded Widget Scale.