The Commonwealth of Aanbreck Aurora is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Al McGovern with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.132 billion Aurorans 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 enormous, 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 79.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Auroran economy, worth 488 trillion sols a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,281 sols, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment, the government subsidises medicines of mass destruction, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, and the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure. 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 288,578^th in the world and 370^th in Eurth for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -20.89 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.