The Federation of Aurum Riders 57th Treasury is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 3.686 billion Aurum Riders 57th Treasuryians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 46.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Aurum Riders 57th Treasuryian economy, worth 190 trillion Gold Bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 51,729 Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, and misbehaving Gold Bars deemed dangerous to the public are shot and hanged by the town hall as a warning to others. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Aurum Riders 57th Treasury's national animal is the Gold Bar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aurum Riders 57th Treasury is ranked 206,770^th in the world and 5,130^th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 11.47 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.