The United Hipster Nation of The Pacific Northwest is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by a coffee hater with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, ritual sacrifices, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.174 billion Pacific Northwesterners hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seattle. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Pacific Northwestern economy, worth a remarkable 2,057 trillion Cascadian Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 224,231 Cascadian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A government program is underway to revitalize The Pacific Northwest's beaches, the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across The Pacific Northwest, a policy of plausible deniability helps protect the government from athletic doping scandals, and citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers. Crime is totally unknown. The Pacific Northwest's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Pacific Northwest is ranked 305,083^rd in the world and 208^th in Refugia for Fattest Citizens, with 3.37 Obesity Rate.