The Paraíso of Mexitropolis is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Earwig LeStrande Lautrec BonBon-Cloud with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.645 billion Mexitropolitans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pinkrock. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The thriving Mexitropolisian economy, worth a remarkable 1,272 trillion gummy worms a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 109,286 gummy worms, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A large savings account makes you an enemy of the state, the sound of rattles and selfie shots regularly disrupt political debates, political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm, and juvenile delinquents are fitter than ever. Crime is totally unknown. Mexitropolis's national animal is the teddy bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mexitropolis is ranked 10,368^th in the world and 2^nd in Absurdistan for Smartest Citizens, with 93.67 quips per hour.