The Unicorns of Aeriling is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Unicorn with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.018 billion Unicorns are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Unicorn City. The average income tax rate is 69.3%.

The frighteningly efficient A Unicorn economy, worth a remarkable 6,139 trillion Rainbows 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 amazing 340,733 Rainbows, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

A PhD just ain't what it used to be, citizens must have a license to operate a computer, A-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, and election results are often delayed for weeks to count the expat votes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aeriling's national animal is the Unicorn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Violet.

Aeriling is ranked 22,258^th in the world and 5^th in Nerdlandia for Largest Populations, with 18.0 billion capita.