The Federation of Pacifian is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Hart with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.292 billion Pacifians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District of Cascadia. The average income tax rate is 77.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pacifian economy, worth 161 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 124,930 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

People often feel unbalanced by their daily commute, a video of President Hart wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, and schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pacifian's national animal is the Pacifian grizzly bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Pacifian is ranked 29,736^th in the world and 353^rd in Europe for Lowest Crime Rates, with 85.53 law-abiding acts per hour.