The Federation of Parisitan is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Nearl with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 8.62 billion Parisitanians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Korper. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Parisitanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,664 trillion Bits 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 193,125 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, the official Parisitanian Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum, and parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parisitan's national animal is the Lepon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ayinism.

Parisitan is ranked 3,048^th in the world and 57^th in the West Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 695.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.