The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, free-roaming dinosaurs, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 32.512 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 18,978 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 583,729 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Agreeing to appear on TV is often the best way to access social care, interest in globalism never flags, public ferries only carry enough lifeboats for the first-class passengers, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. 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 85^th in the world and 1^st in European Union for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,650.52 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.