The Republic of Pasadenna is a small, genial nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, lack of airports, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 20 million Pasadennans 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 16.8%.

The Pasadennan economy, worth 1.07 trillion American Dollars a year, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,597 American Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Crops are flattened as farmers bludgeon insects to death, thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors, polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, and those who don't have a bean to spend don't know a bean about Brasilistanian coffee beans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pasadenna's national animal is the Grizzly Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pasadenna is ranked 59,714^th in the world and 41^st in The Toastic Assembly for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 47.2 on the Kitten Softness Rating.