The Federal Commonwealth of Pax Aurea is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President Gaius Proctus with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 31.108 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, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Industry, and Welfare are also considered important, while Defense isn't funded at all. 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 17,802 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 572,283 Aurean Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians have literally dirty hands from their extracurricular activities, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, and the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation. 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 224,639^th in the world and 78^th in European Union for Most Conservative, scoring 19.77 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.