The People's Federation of Parieta is a massive, safe nation, ruled by the Federal Executive Council with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.219 billion Parietans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

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 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Parietan economy, worth 36.2 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 29,674 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, the words guilty and evidence have left the Parietan lexicon, and The Federal Executive Council's personal home is one of the South Pacific's most notorious party destinations. Crime 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 211,146^th in the world and 2,977^th in the South Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 9.08 Obesity Rate.