The People's Federation of Parieta is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the Federal Executive Council with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.219 billion Parietans 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 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 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Parietan economy, worth 36.2 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 29,695 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A secret Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Parieta, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, and scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs. 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 234,401^st in the world and 3,189^th in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 52.47 on the Human Development Index.