The Pegasus of Guard 84 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 21.569 billion Guard 84ians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 66.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Guard 84ian economy, worth 356 trillion Dollars a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 16,539 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Guard 84's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Guard 84 is ranked 162,605^th in the world and 1^st in Great White Brotherhood for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.92 law-abiding acts per hour.