The Federal Republic of Technocratic-european Countries is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nathan Aurel with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.819 billion europeans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Europia. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient european economy, worth a remarkable 1,698 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 217,258 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space', the only women behind bars are barmaids, election results are often delayed for weeks to count the expat votes, and billions of Euros are spent to take high-quality photos of the Eagle Nebula. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Technocratic-european Countries's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Secularism.

Technocratic-european Countries is ranked 11,013^th in the world and 479^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 115 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.