The United Socialist States of PARIATLEO is a massive, safe nation, ruled by AN with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.475 billion PARIATLEOians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong PARIATLEOian economy, worth 114 trillion kons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,360 kons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters, fighter pilots crash out of the air after failing to understand their foreign instruction manuals, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, and scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PARIATLEO's national animal is the yui, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Libertarian democratic socialism.

PARIATLEO is ranked 213,899^th in the world and 9,601^st in Balder for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -5 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.