The Confederate States of America, is a country (or union of states) in central North America. The Confederacy borders four other countries: Florida to the south, Mexico to the southwest, California to the northwest, and the United States to the north. To the east, is the Atlantic Ocean. The Confederacy functions as a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic. It is a member of the Trans-Atlantic Union, AUSP, the Axis Pact, and the World Trade Organization, and has a high human development index of .840, ranking 61st in the world as of 2009.