The People's Republic of Parasedonia is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 684 million Parasedonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arthurville. The average income tax rate is 66.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Parasedonian economy, worth 53.7 trillion marks 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Tourism. Average income is 78,559 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, children who drop their ice cream are fined for littering, large-girthed charity workers assign themselves healthy wages for their work with starving children, and citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parasedonia's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parasedonia is ranked 99,294^th in the world and 218^th in Talonia for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,991.77 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.