The Dominion of Aurithe Licia is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.33 billion Aurithe Licians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Aurithe Lician economy, worth 157 trillion gold bars 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 black market in Uranium Mining, Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 118,507 gold bars, with the richest citizens earning 9.1 times as much as the poorest.

Slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration, the Aurithe Licia Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise, signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Aurithe Lician justice, and glassy-eyed Aurithe Lician wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aurithe Licia's national animal is the unicorn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Aurithe Licia is ranked 80,734^th in the world and 56^th in The Khamen Union for Most Developed, scoring 66.91 on the Human Development Index.