The Republic of The Aura Guild is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, devout population of 365 million Aura Guildians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 35.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Aura Guildian economy, worth 17.2 trillion Sans a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,017 Sans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism, The Aura Guild has designated The Aura Guild City as its capital city, the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy, and politicians are often seen attending regional history classes at primary schools within their constituencies. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Aura Guild's national animal is the ox, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Aura Guild is ranked 292,784^th in the world and 14^th in Indy for Largest Black Market, with 34.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.