The Protectorate of North Pacific Spy Agent 18 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 19.255 billion North Pacific Spy Agent 18ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 41.4%.

The North Pacific Spy Agent 18ian economy, worth 996 trillion Shiny Green Things a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Gambling, and Retail. Average income is 51,765 Shiny Green Things, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown, the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation, major archaeological findings are frequently bulldozed to make way for new buildings, and in a fit of passion Leader has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Pacific Spy Agent 18's national animal is the Black Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

North Pacific Spy Agent 18 is ranked 117,679^th in the world and 6,065^th in Balder for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,037.6 on the Gilded Widget Scale.