The United Continents of Pangaea is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Physics with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, smutty television, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.464 billion Pangaeans 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Earth. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pangaean economy, worth a remarkable 3,089 trillion Golds a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 158,744 Golds, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, citizens are arrested for naturally producing proteins, metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach, and it's been a banner year for local vexillology. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pangaea's national animal is the Elephant, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Science.

Pangaea is ranked 39,679^th in the world and 26^th in The Hole To Hide In for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,286.35 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.