The Catholic Commonwealth of Auralia is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pope Leo XIV with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 24.095 billion Auralians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Education, although Defense, Administration, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Mark's. The average income tax rate is 3.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Auralian economy, worth a remarkable 4,750 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 197,153 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, Auralian diplomacy is by the book, trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, and there's more than one way to skin a diplomat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Auralia's national animal is the red-tailed hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Auralia is ranked 788^th in the world and 34^th in Balder for Least Corrupt Governments, with 97.84 percentage of bribes refused.