The Khilafat Islamiya Syurawia of Paganan is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Khalifah Al-Mushthafa Li Dinillah with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 12.569 billion Paglans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Isla La Jollie. The average income tax rate is 89.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Paglan economy, worth a remarkable 1,485 trillion Sagis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 118,153 Sagis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Chess players with pacemakers and cochlear implants are treated with suspicion, the Paglan government is the world's largest NGO, the government is spending serious cheddar protecting sewer rats, and Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paganan's national animal is the Camel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sunni Islam.

Paganan is ranked 11,293^rd in the world and 254^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 403.35 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.