The Protectorate of North Pacific Spy Agent 16 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The democratic population of 19.254 billion North Pacific Spy Agent 16ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient North Pacific Spy Agent 16ian economy, worth 916 trillion Shiny Green Things a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Trout Farming. Average income is 47,609 Shiny Green Things, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, otherwise healthy people are being sent to internment camps because they have VODAIS, and in a fit of passion Leader has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Pacific Spy Agent 16's national animal is the Black Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

North Pacific Spy Agent 16 is ranked 137,190^th in the world and 6,122^nd in Osiris for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 70.57 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.