The Republic of Parens Patriae is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, aversion to nipples, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.763 billion Parens Patriaeans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Parens Patriaean economy, worth a remarkable 4,470 trillion currencies a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 575,835 currencies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,508,506 per year while the poor average 41,826, a ratio of 83.9 to 1.

Newly-peaceful nations are forced to use assault rifles as farming tools due to a lack of funds for purchasing anything else, sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers, denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom, and the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parens Patriae's national animal is the animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Parens Patriae is ranked 1,152^nd in the world and 1^st in Vickenian experiment incubator for Most Conservative, scoring 98.58 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.