Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Pubs of Parkplace is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 18.554 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although the Environment and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ParrrrTay City. The average income tax rate is 49%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, and violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner. 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 Chocolate Snow Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Daquires.

Parkplace is ranked 159th in Canada and 103,387th in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.037 Stalins.

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