The Colony of Augonel is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 139 million Augonelians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Augonelian economy, worth 1.97 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is 14,192 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, and the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Augonel's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Augonel is ranked 208,501^st in the world and 249^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 287.91 on the Gilded Widget Scale.