The Allied States of Ashia Aurius is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 700 million Auriusians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.
The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Harmonia. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The strong Auriusian economy, worth 51.2 trillion ashurs a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,169 ashurs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself, and telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ashia Aurius's national animal is the coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Ashia Aurius is ranked 254,433rd in the world and 481st in Sophia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 21,511.71 Standard Monetary Units.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Ashia Aurius, telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm.
- : Ashia Aurius was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Following new legislation in Ashia Aurius, the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself.
- : Following new legislation in Ashia Aurius, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky.
- : Following new legislation in Ashia Aurius, advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines.
- : Following new legislation in Ashia Aurius, people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy.
- : Following new legislation in Ashia Aurius, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication.
- : Ashia Aurius was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Income Equality.
- : Following new legislation in Ashia Aurius, bored politicians often entertain themselves with games of Simon during important votes.
- : Following new legislation in Ashia Aurius, parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions.
