The Democratic States of Pacerat is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 2.589 billion Paceratians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 53.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Paceratian economy, worth 81.0 trillion Ducats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 31,267 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Pacerat in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pacerat's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pacerat is ranked 290,693^rd in the world and 49^th in Swabia for Highest Average Incomes, with 31,267.65 Standard Monetary Units.