The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and notable for its prohibition of alcohol, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 35.853 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 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 21,660 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 604,157 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gossip magazines have pictures of President Gaius Proctus sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, it is against the rules of boxing to hit above or below the belt, unemployed taxi drivers ironically use self-driving cabs to reach employment offices, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany President Gaius Proctus to meetings with foreign heads of state. 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 225,364^th in the world and 52^nd in European Union for Most Pro-Market, scoring 15.67 on the Rand Index.