The People's Republic of Parieta is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 960 million Parietans 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wabakin. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Parietan economy, worth 24.1 trillion 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 major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 25,127 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, and highly paid government contractors are found coughing up furballs in alleyways. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parieta's national animal is the cinnabar moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parieta is ranked 67,640^th in the world and 939^th in the South Pacific for Largest Governments, scoring 20.1 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.