The Republic of Zombie Aurora is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Zombie Aurora with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 14.795 billion Zombies are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Antremstre. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Zombie economy, worth a remarkable 1,619 trillion zombucks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 109,473 zombucks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 438,550 per year while the poor average 18,336, a ratio of 23.9 to 1.

On-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make Zombie mussels the biggest in Fae, oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires, and the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zombie Aurora's national animal is the Zombie, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is a zombie cult.

Zombie Aurora is ranked 300,886^th in the world and 1^st in Fae for Nicest Citizens, with 0.43 average smiles per day.