The Commonwealth of Magellum is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Caretaker Ferdinand Magellan with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, rampant corporate plagiarism, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 982 million Magellans 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 enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trinidad. The average income tax rate is 78.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Magellan economy, worth 64.7 trillion pounds a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 65,839 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There are no more heroes any more, street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by, space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, and things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Magellum's national animal is the egret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Magellum is ranked 14,061^st in the world and 624^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,753.93 on the Societal Mobility Rating.