The Incorporated States of Center Parbize is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 1.116 billion Center Parbizeans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The strong Center Parbizean economy, worth 56.0 trillion guilders a year, is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 50,140 guilders, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 292,704 per year while the poor average 4,041, a ratio of 72.4 to 1.

Crime is a serious problem. Center Parbize's national animal is the leopard, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Center Parbize is ranked 230,574^th in the world and 1^st in Almingway for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.47 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.