The Republic of Pax Australiana is a small, cultured nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 23 million Australians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Australian economy, worth 546 billion dollars 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 Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 23,760 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

When electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pax Australiana's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pax Australiana is ranked 202,244^th in the world and 352^nd in 10000 Islands for Most Primitive, scoring -83.85 on the Scary Big Number Scale.