The Republic of Aurval is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 40 million Aurvalians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Aurvalian economy, worth 1.14 trillion Provincial Talers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports and Basket Weaving. Average income is 28,443 Provincial Talers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, and the colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aurval's national animal is the Provincial Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aurval is ranked 85,720^th in the world and 19^th in Urcea for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,126.3 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.