The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, prohibition of alcohol, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 38.317 billion Aureans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Industry, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Defense receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pacifica. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Aurean economy, worth an astonishing 23,349 trillion Aurean Marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 609,364 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, and Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation. Crime is totally unknown. Pax Aurea's national animal is the wild cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Council of World Religions.

Pax Aurea is ranked 35^th in the world and 1^st in European Union for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 55,182.4 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.