The People's Federation of Parieta is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Federal Executive Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.31 billion Parietans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 76.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Parietan economy, worth 40.2 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 significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 30,696 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, major internet servers have acquired citizenship, people invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids, and children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary. 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 26,582^nd in the world and 579^th in the South Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 2,820.63 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.