The Colony of PGAC is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 649 million Communalists enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 18.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Communalist economy, worth 37.3 trillion Intersystemic Units a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,477 Intersystemic Units, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Fruit market traders let their stock spoil rather than reduce their prices at the day's end, on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons, it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, and there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation. Crime is totally unknown. PGAC's national animal is the Sapient Robot.

PGAC is ranked 233,305^th in the world and 39^th in Shots Puppets for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -3.96 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.