The Grand Duchy of Aeurelis is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 275 million Aeurelisians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.8%.

The all-consuming Aeurelisian economy, worth 24.8 trillion drachmons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Average income is 90,141 drachmons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 264,881 per year while the poor average 24,167, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks, doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, and the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aeurelis's national animal is the sailfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Aeurelis is ranked 169,913^th in the world and 3^rd in Verdania for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,264.3 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.