The Republic of Pikachusetts is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Lord Pikachu with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, anti-smoking policies, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 8.813 billion Pikachusettsians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pikachusetts. The average income tax rate is 38.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Pikachusettsian economy, worth 432 trillion joules a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 49,020 joules, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises, a politician who is photographed pulling a funny face while eating can say goodbye to their credibility, and chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in Pikachusetts's playgrounds. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pikachusetts's national animal is the pikachu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Electric.

Pikachusetts is ranked 301,350^th in the world and 3^rd in Draco Imperialis for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.