The People's Federation of Parieta is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the Federal Executive Council with an even hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.231 billion Parietans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 76.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Parietan economy, worth 36.6 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 29,758 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, extreme political groups are outlawed, boys are shocked by the revolutionary lesson that women are actually human, and literally voiceless people are unable to protest when food and water are denied to them. Crime, especially youth-related, 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, and its national religion is the Church of Infinity.

Parieta is ranked 116,951^st in the world and 1,506^th in the South Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 27,199.65 Standard Monetary Units.