The Balkanic Empire of Aurorastan is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Garuv Hazagarin with an iron fist, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 269 million Aurorajiks 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salentriao. The average income tax rate is 50.6%.

The thriving Aurorajik economy, worth 54.5 trillion Vadars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 69,540 Vadars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", and in distant lands the nation is known as a lovely place that was even better in the good old days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aurorastan's national animal is the Nandu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aurorastan is ranked 245,931^st in the world and 4,069^th in the South Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.03 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.