The Republic of ParaPesca is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, lack of airports, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, devout population of 575 million ParaPescans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 53.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The ParaPescan economy, worth 23.6 trillion Cards a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,043 Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities, patriots insist that size does matter, many in ParaPesca are born in the purple, and pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ParaPesca's national animal is the Card, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ParaPesca is ranked 88,029^th in the world and 8^th in Fish Storage for Least Corrupt Governments, with 93.58 percentage of bribes refused.