The Federal Republic of Magnum Aurumea is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 888 million Aurumese are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Spirituality, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nan Madol. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.4%.

The all-consuming Aurumese economy, worth 76.4 trillion Aurumese dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Gambling, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 86,020 Aurumese dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 247,918 per year while the poor average 23,698, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Leader claims tax rises are the result of 'curses', the might of the entire Aurumese Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders, the Federal Council of Magnum Aurumea has been announced as the new Head of State, and Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Magnum Aurumea's national animal is the Axolotl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Magnum Aurumea is ranked 174,528^th in the world and 29^th in Republic of Nova Tero for Most Conservative, scoring 53.18 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.