The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 21.912 billion Aureans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Industry, and Environment also on the agenda, while Defense is ignored. 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 10,476 trillion Aurean Marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 478,109 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, and birth rates have hit an all-time low. 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 29,697^th in the world and 11^th in The European Union for Most Extreme, scoring 26.66 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.