The Socialist Confederacy of Parangaba is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by the Chairman of the Confederacy with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ban on automobiles, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 5.521 billion Parangabans 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arronche. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Parangaban economy, worth a remarkable 1,069 trillion caras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 193,678 caras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Parangaban Navy, the nation's government buildings are remarkable for being ugly concrete boxes, criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids, and elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-cara mansions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parangaba's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parangaba is ranked 14,196^th in the world and 112^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,420.25 on the Gilded Widget Scale.