The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 28.583 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, 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 15,706 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 549,512 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians, people with political aspirations study how to make balloon animals, and foreign 'investors' have been taking a great interest in the new secret shuttle. 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 152,812^th in the world and 129^th in European Union for Most Pro-Market, scoring 25.67 on the Rand Index.