The Republic of Pagkakai is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Aaron Agbayani with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and frequent executions. The compassionate population of 1.267 billion Pagkakaians 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 Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lumaya. The average income tax rate is 87.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Pagkakaian economy, worth 114 trillion pilotoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 90,023 pilotoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, and passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pagkakai's national animal is the kingfisher, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Pagkakai is ranked 294,065^th in the world and 5,228^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -255.07 on the Scary Big Number Scale.