The People's Federation of Parieta is a massive, safe nation, ruled by the Federal Executive Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.344 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 77.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Parietan economy, worth 41.6 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 30,956 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The 'Museum Of Stuff We Stole' is a tourist favourite, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, and the aims of top-secret Parietan science projects revolve around designing the perfect robot woman. 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 21,155^th in the world and 435^th in the South Pacific for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 77.09 Effective Tax Rate.