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The Sunless Nation of Ausleria is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Executeur Edrich Flamerich with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, pith helmet sales, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.092 billion Auslerians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Social Policy and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kerslen. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Auslerian economy, worth 840 trillion Dalers a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 137,995 Dalers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 540,933 per year while the poor average 23,952, a ratio of 22.6 to 1.

There has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, migrating birds in the nation's airspace are considered a violation of national sovereignty, the might of the entire Auslerian Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders, and hell is not always other people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ausleria's national animal is the Rat Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ausleria is ranked 31,499^th in the world and 47^th in Fifth Empire for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 4,133.42 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.