The United Socialist States of Aupore is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 26 million Auporeans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 74.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Auporean economy, worth 333 billion Aupoes 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 Tourism. Average income is 12,837 Aupoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, and kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aupore's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aupore is ranked 26,333^rd in the world and 328^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 74.61 Effective Tax Rate.