The Demarchan Republic of Parliamentary Laramidia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Bernice Williams with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 4.345 billion Laramidians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vorerah. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Parliamentary Laramidian economy, worth 861 trillion LArs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 198,181 LArs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Government officials sit helplessly as they are labelled 'Pompous Womples' by celebrities, people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, homeowners on prime real estate have been seen dodging giant bulldozers with cartoon characters painted on them, and textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parliamentary Laramidia's national animal is the Afidatio bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The originals of the forest.

Parliamentary Laramidia is ranked 6,483^rd in the world and 104^th in Europe for Highest Average Incomes, with 198,181.46 Standard Monetary Units.