The Supreme Confederacy of The Blazing Aura is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Emperor Thorne II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 26.626 billion Aurans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wightvian. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The very strong Aurian economy, worth a remarkable 3,117 trillion Thingymajigs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,102 Thingymajigs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A child's only Trickster Night scare is the sight of their parents dancing, the central government is trying to keep things flowing, advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, and the government keeps its thumb on the scales of justice. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Blazing Aura's national animal is the Eagleas, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Aura.

The Blazing Aura is ranked 52,128^th in the world and 20^th in The Commonwealth Society for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,804.11 on the Gilded Widget Scale.