The People's Republic of Parozia is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Friedrich Krause with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.442 billion Parozians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maravelle. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Parozian economy, worth 973 trillion rubles 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 Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 219,132 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Clerics are taught that silence is golden and duct tape is silver, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-ruble mansions, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", and the "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Parozia's national animal is the pudu, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Parozia is ranked 2,181^st in the world and 1^st in The UMNS for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 11,771.54 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.