The Empire of Paragon Project is a tiny, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 16 million Paragon Projectians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Paragon Projectian economy, worth 453 billion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 28,331 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots, and nefarious Blackacrean surveillance has been replaced with patriotic Paragon Projectian surveillance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paragon Project's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Paragon Project is ranked 276,622^nd in the world and 3^rd in The Iron Domains for Most Developed, scoring 50.1 on the Human Development Index.