The United Hipster Nation of The Pacific Northwest is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by a coffee hater with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.202 billion Pacific Northwesterners hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

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 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Pacific Northwestern economy, worth a remarkable 2,062 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 amazing 224,185 Cascadian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, A coffee hater can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted. 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 310,908^th in the world and 227^th in Refugia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -37.23 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.