The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 27.592 billion Aureans 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 large, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Industry, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Defense receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pacifica. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Aurean economy, worth an astonishing 14,883 trillion Aurean Marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 539,427 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The number of judges has tripled in recent months, it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, the Aurean Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation, and ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences. Crime is totally unknown. Pax Aurea's national animal is the wild cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Council of World Religions.

Pax Aurea is ranked 177,387^th in the world and 148^th in European Union for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 12.49 on the Bus Surprisal Index.