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The Federation of Pacifian is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Hart with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.247 billion Pacifians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District of Cascadia. The average income tax rate is 78.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pacifian economy, worth 157 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 126,181 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions, and at customs baggage gets an x-ray and female travelers get an ultrasound. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pacifian's national animal is the Pacifian grizzly bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Pacifian is ranked 285,303^rd in the world and 1,187^th in Europe for Largest Black Market, with 32.3 billion Standard Monetary Units.