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The Soviet Commonwealth of Aurora Trinity is a mammoth, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 6.505 billion Aurorans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 31.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Aurora Trinityian economy, worth 67.0 trillion Auroran roubles 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 10,297 Auroran roubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aurora Trinity's national animal is the Lenin.

Aurora Trinity is ranked 241,731^st in the world and 21^st in Aurora for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 31.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.