The Pubs of Parkplace is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 47.568 billion Parkplacians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ParrrrTay City. The average income tax rate is 81.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Parkplacian economy, worth a remarkable 4,209 trillion Margaritas a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 88,498 Margaritas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A third of Parkplacians are e-certified CEOs, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people, and lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parkplace's national animal is the Himalayan cat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Parkplace is ranked 295,528^th in the world and 112^th in Canada for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 16,549.21 Standard Monetary Units.