The Democratic Republic of Paratinas is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.387 billion Paratinasians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 31.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Paratinasian economy, worth 90.8 trillion Plinks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,056 Plinks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, the transit system is throwing poor people under the bus, online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for Paratinas, and the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere. Crime is totally unknown. Paratinas's national animal is the Gryphon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Paratinas is ranked 147,405^th in the world and 8^th in Arborhaven for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 75.17 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.