The People's Republic of Parisimo is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 314 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 Education, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Parisimoan economy, worth 20.5 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 65,261 Paras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, and businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections. Crime, especially youth-related, 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 17,518^th in the world and 370^th in The East Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 24.05 average smiles per day.