The Isle of Parenthos is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, otherworldly petting zoo, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 14.529 billion Chefs hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Voa. The average income tax rate is 79.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Parenthosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,793 trillion Berries a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 123,427 Berries, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, the nation's taxpayers pay for foreign government's extravagances, and you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parenthos's national animal is the Loch, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Conscience.

Parenthos is ranked 17,459^th in the world and 1^st in The Other Side for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,981.07 on the Gilded Widget Scale.