The Interstellar Conglomerate of Paradox Corporation is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Margo Lovelace with an iron fist, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 5.415 billion Employees are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Laniakea. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Corporate economy, worth a remarkable 1,167 trillion Shares a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 215,588 Shares, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Being dead no longer has any benefits, Thomas the Spank Engine is the most popular and controversial children's show in the nation, Paradox Corporation Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Paradox Corporation's national animal is the raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Paradox Corporation is ranked 4,964^th in the world and 4^th in The Local Cluster for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 95.57 Effective Tax Rate.