The People's Republic of Parisimo is a mid-sized, socially progressive nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 74 million Parisimoans 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Parisimoan economy, worth 3.37 trillion Paras 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 45,582 Paras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol, sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself, research grant proposals read like political diatribes, and the 'no-coal' transition is being paid for in slashed student support funds. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parisimo's national animal is the Oriente Warbler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parisimo is ranked 135,193^rd in the world and 1,710^th in The East Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 56.94 on the Human Development Index.