The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 32.489 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, with Environment, Industry, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Defense is ignored. 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 18,964 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 583,717 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to President Gaius Proctus's wardrobe, and college athletes are arrested for selling lemonade. 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 12^th in the world and 1^st in European Union for Most Beautiful Environments, with 16,853.19 pounds of wildlife per square mile.