The history of Pacifica is sometimes misrepresented as a history of events and great individuals, but these are only symptoms of a greater historical journey – the journey of the Pacifican Nation. The Pacifican Nation is not a place, a time, an event or a person: it is a people. But what makes this people a nation rather than a collection of individuals or an opportune alliance? Facts without context are empty; it is therefore only possible to truly understand the Nation through an examination of its historical development in the context of the material conditions around it. Only once this is done can we begin to understand what the Pacifican Nation is: how it came to be, what it stands for, why it developed as it did, and where it is going.