The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 31.225 billion Aureans 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Industry, and Welfare are also considered important, while Defense receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pacifica. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Aurean economy, worth an astonishing 17,901 trillion Aurean Marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 573,299 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, and motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours. Crime is totally unknown. Pax Aurea's national animal is the wild cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Council of World Religions.

Pax Aurea is ranked 5^th in the world and 1^st in European Union for Most Popular Tourist Destinations, with 4,757.05 tourists per hour.