The Republic of Paper Rings is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.544 billion Paper Ringsians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Paper Ringsian economy, worth 776 trillion lovers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 118,705 lovers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings", war criminals are given full state funerals, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, and political visitors are forced to stop ten paces from Leader's throne. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paper Rings's national animal is the lover, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Paper Rings is ranked 168,320^th in the world and 98^th in Stereo Hearts for Most Primitive, scoring -64.38 on the Scary Big Number Scale.