The Khilafat Islamiya Syurawia of Paganan is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Khalifah Al-Mushthafa Li Dinillah with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 12.609 billion Paglans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Isla La Jollie. The average income tax rate is 89.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Paglan economy, worth a remarkable 1,489 trillion Sagis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 118,153 Sagis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Chess players with pacemakers and cochlear implants are treated with suspicion, the Paglan government is the world's largest NGO, the government is spending serious cheddar protecting sewer rats, and Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paganan's national animal is the Camel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sunni Islam.

Paganan is ranked 3,171^st in the world and 94^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 57.82 average smiles per day.