# Ausref - Country Brief (Oceania Reference Data)

> Ausref - Country Brief (Oceania Reference Data) is a paid API for AI agents from ausref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Returns a comprehensive government reference data brief for a single Australasian/Oceania country, including policy rate, VAT/GST, CPI, tax rates, minimum wage, and public holidays in one response.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ausref.dev/v1/brief/:country?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ausref-country-brief-oceania-reference-data-0cc6f16b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_E_MjBlbDRiGYbbQsadJxE

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ausref-country-brief-oceania-reference-data-0cc6f16b
```

Example prompt: Pull the full government reference brief for Australia — I need the policy rate, GST, CPI, income and corporate tax rates, minimum wage, and public holidays all in one go, with official sources and confidence labels.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a comprehensive, citation-backed snapshot of all major government reference values for a single Oceania or Australasian country in a single API call. Prefer it over individual per-series endpoints when you need multiple reference series at once (tax, monetary policy, wages, CPI, holidays) and want official source citations and confidence labels bundled together. Ideal for tax compliance, economic briefings, regulatory research, or any workflow requiring authoritative government data for the Australasia-Pacific region.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country code returns 404 or error — only Australasian/Oceania countries are covered
- Invalid or malformed ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code returns validation error
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC not provided or insufficient balance
- Stale data flag on response if a series has not been recently confirmed from official source
- Some reference series may be absent for smaller Pacific nations with limited official data

## How this service works

Australasian country brief: every government reference series for one country in one call (policy rate, VAT/GST, CPI, income/corporate/withholding tax, minimum wage, holidays...), each with value, unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, official source and confidence label

## Output

A structured JSON object containing every major government reference series for the requested Oceania/Australasian country, including: central bank policy rate, VAT/GST rate, CPI, income tax rate, corporate tax rate, withholding tax rate, minimum wage, and public holidays. Each data point includes the current value, unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, official source citation, and a confidence label indicating data reliability.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {},
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/ausref-country-brief-oceania-reference-data-0cc6f16b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from ausref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/ausref.dev/llms.txt)