The People's Federation of Parieta is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Federal Executive Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.255 billion Parietans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wabakin. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Parietan economy, worth 36.4 trillion credits 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 major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 28,997 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Smoking is banned in public areas, saying "don't do anything that the Federal Executive Council wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, tours to see the 'wild men of the mountains' are popular with tourists from the big cities, and Max Barry is this year's Miss Parieta. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parieta's national animal is the cinnabar moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Church of Infinity.

Parieta is ranked 294,427^th in the world and 3,663^rd in the South Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 28,997.05 Standard Monetary Units.