DO NOT DO THIS WITH MVC!
DO NOT RUN ASPNET_REGSQL!
Identity does NOT work that way anymore.
What I had to do was remove the line in my web.config that said:
<roleManager enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="false" />Once I got rid of that, the error blessedly poofed into a memory.
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