The United Hipster Nation of The Pacific Northwest is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by a coffee hater with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, rampant corporate plagiarism, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.571 billion Pacific Northwesterners 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 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 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Pacific Northwestern economy, worth a remarkable 1,104 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 impressive 198,234 Cascadian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife, violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner, and attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high. 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 322,528^th in the world and 396^th in Refugia for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -15.49 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.