The United Hipster Nation of The Pacific Northwest is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by a coffee hater with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.36 billion Pacific Northwesterners 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, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seattle. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Pacific Northwestern economy, worth a remarkable 1,035 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 impressive 193,121 Cascadian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers, the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. 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 315,831^st in the world and 432^nd in Refugia for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -18.97 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.