The People's Federation of Parieta is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Federal Executive Council with an even hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.39 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 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Parietan economy, worth 40.5 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 29,139 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves, and the official Parietan Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child. 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 40,502^nd in the world and 365^th in the South Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 302.59 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.