The Pen Gwyn of South Pacific Information Center is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Opus Magnum with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 11.729 billion South Pacificans 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Pacific City. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse South Pacific economy, worth 792 trillion sand dollars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,608 sand dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, artists attempt to convince the Hardship Fund that their unmade bed is a masterpiece, and cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. South Pacific Information Center's national animal is the Little Blue Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Reformed Mallardism.

South Pacific Information Center is ranked 68,077^th in the world and 38^th in South Pacific for Safest, scoring 96.04 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.