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The Republic of Auricland is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by His Utmost Excellency and Majesty with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.788 billion Auriclandians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Artopolis. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Auriclandian economy, worth 583 trillion Aurums a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 153,994 Aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps, cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, and the law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Auricland's national animal is the Memek, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Auricland is ranked 1,952^nd in the world and 42^nd in The East Pacific for Most Secular, with 99.1 Atheism Rate.