The Federation of Pacifian is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Hart with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, otherworldly petting zoo, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.229 billion Pacifians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District of Cascadia. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pacifian economy, worth 153 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 124,523 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Educators and parents alike are allowing children to view the internet again after violent videos were purged, restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food, pros are the new cons, and the armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pacifian's national animal is the Pacifian grizzly bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Pacifian is ranked 239,406^th in the world and 889^th in Europe for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.