The Democratic States of Peaceables is a huge, genial nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and daily referendums. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 999 million Peaceablesians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of happy nation. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Peaceablesian economy, worth 112 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 112,479 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 374,371 per year while the poor average 25,181, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

Happy nation's flashy holiday light displays can be seen from space, over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes, prisons in Peaceables are the summer homes of murderers, and living well is no longer the best kind of revenge. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Peaceables's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Peaceables is ranked 28,854^th in the world and 17^th in KAISERREICH for Nicest Citizens, with 20.42 average smiles per day.