The Republic of Aomori Mine is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 2.8 billion Aomori Mineans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 30.1%.

The Aomori Minean economy, worth 113 trillion credits a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,542 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned birdball fields, crop circles are intently studied by investigators with questionable merits, convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail, and odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force. Aomori Mine's national animal is the bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Aomori Mine is ranked 203,112^th in the world and 1,353^rd in Remembrance for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -2.24 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.