The Pubs of Parkplace is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, hatred of cheese, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 42.274 billion Parkplaceans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ParrrrTay City. The average income tax rate is 81.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Parkplacean economy, worth a remarkable 3,707 trillion Daquireses a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,700 Daquireses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits, eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance, and drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parkplace's national animal is the Cookie Monster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Parkplace is ranked 10,640^th in the world and 20^th in Canada for Lowest Crime Rates, with 99.86 law-abiding acts per hour.