The Democratic Republic of Pax Aeterna is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 522 million Pax Aeternans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aurea Civitas. The average income tax rate is 52.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Pax Aeternan economy, worth 50.6 trillion Aurels a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 96,954 Aurels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape, new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, and shivering secretaries type letters under torrential downpours in open-roof offices. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pax Aeterna's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Pax Aeterna is ranked 187,301^st in the world and 1,679^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 31.96 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.