The Federal Republic of Pataxo is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 282 million Pataxoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sweetland. The average income tax rate is 44.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Pataxoan economy, worth 10.8 trillion Rubos 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 led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 38,347 Rubos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, one can wake up in Pataxo and have breakfast in Bigtopia, Pataxo has designated Sweetland as its capital city, and an internet search for the word "bland" produces pictures of Leader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pataxo's national animal is the iguana, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pataxo is ranked 34,805^th in the world and 29^th in A Taco Paradise for Highest Food Quality, scoring 51.04 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.