The Beloved Sultana of Auphelia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Sultana of Auphelia with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.934 billion Auphelians 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 medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The January Palace. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Auphelian economy, worth 866 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 145,968 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles, Auphelian tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, and enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Auphelia's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Auphelia is ranked 51,646^th in the world and 2,522^nd in the South Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 46,856.01 Standard Monetary Units.