The Queendom of Le Paradoxe is a huge, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 639 million Le Paradoxeans 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Apex Predator. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Le Paradoxean economy, worth 50.2 trillion drakens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 78,633 drakens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Apex Predator Natural History Museum, international tensions are high as Le Paradoxe threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens, and the "Dreadnowt" is the pride and joy of the Le Paradoxean Navy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Le Paradoxe's national animal is the orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Le Paradoxe is ranked 17,223^rd in the world and 549^th in The East Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 8,042.75 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.