The Malice of Pacific Sunset is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by The Delegate with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 13.367 billion malicious people are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Malicegrad. The average income tax rate is 35.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped malicious economy, worth 329 trillion malicious rubledollars a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 24,655 malicious rubledollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Pacific Sunset flights to avoid the pay lavatories, The Delegate has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, Pacific Sunset has designated Malicegrad as its capital city, and The Delegate is the self-declared God of all Pacific Sunset. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pacific Sunset's national animal is the malicious hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is The Overseer.

Pacific Sunset is ranked 194,631^st in the world and 1,835^th in The catholic military orders for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,241.21 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.