The Ever-Serene Metropolia of Parapluiej is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Madame Navia with a fair hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.173 billion Parapluiejians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of La Luna. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Parapluiejian economy, worth a remarkable 1,109 trillion Clocks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 135,718 Clocks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government's giant servers are often used as a tourist trap, neighboring nations are tired of Parapluiej's big fish stories, maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords, and digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parapluiej's national animal is the Melusine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Theatricality.

Parapluiej is ranked 9,440^th in the world and 1^st in Kyorgia puppet storage for Nicest Citizens, with 32.54 average smiles per day.