The Socialist Confederacy of Parangaba is a massive, safe nation, ruled by the Chairman of the Confederacy with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, digital currency, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 4.028 billion Parangabans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westway. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Parangaban economy, worth 714 trillion clays a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 177,490 clays, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, and the military struggles with recruitment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parangaba's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parangaba is ranked 43,345^th in the world and 99^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Stationary, with 688.19194150132 days.