The Grand Duchy of Pacific Sociale is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 268 million Pacific Socialeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Pacific Socialean economy, worth 7.62 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is 28,443 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

If they thought anyone would listen the older generation would likely say that nobody listens to them any more, high school bands practice by moonlight, the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, and ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pacific Sociale's national animal is the rainbow serpent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pacific Sociale is ranked 128,203^rd in the world and 106^th in Lands End for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 838.45 on the Gilded Widget Scale.