The United Republic of Aurasreich is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.182 billion Aurasreichians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Iron City. The average income tax rate is 91.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aurasreichian economy, worth 477 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 150,005 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, and the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aurasreich's national animal is the Griffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Aurasreich is ranked 9,150^th in the world and 400^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 125 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.