The Famous Commonwealth of Auzeda is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Minister Herman Nunn with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 19.734 billion Auzedans 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The powerhouse Auzedan economy, worth a remarkable 2,226 trillion Auzedan Dollars a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 112,828 Auzedan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, costumed characters wearing Maxtopian Grass leaves remind citizens that the government now sells the green stuff, the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, and airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room. Crime is totally unknown. Auzeda's national animal is the Flamingo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Auzeda is ranked 4,845^th in the world and 20^th in Yggdrasil for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 17,659.86 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.