The City-state of Aurum Port is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.101 billion Aureates enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halcyon. The average income tax rate is 47.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Aurum Portian economy, worth 395 trillion spinas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,351 spinas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a big brother in every prison, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, ghost regiments exist only on paper, and libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aurum Port's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aurum Port is ranked 82,677^th in the world and 210^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,970.35 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.