The Revivified Despoiler of Aurum Rider is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Vleerian Remordias with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, enslaved workforce, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.428 billion Aurum Ridarians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elutherophobia Central Command. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Aurum Riderian economy, worth a remarkable 1,082 trillion Tarnished Golds 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Information Technology. 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 an impressive 199,489 Tarnished Golds, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,298,234 per year while the poor average 12,174, a ratio of 106 to 1.

Theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago, the industries of Aurum Rider are coughing all the way to the bank, recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water, and the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Aurum Rider's national animal is the Dormant Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Elutherophobia.

Aurum Rider is ranked 288,830^th in the world and 263^rd in The Brotherhood of Malice for Most Cultured, scoring 38 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.