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The Paradise of Parenthos

“An unspeakable world”

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The Paradise of Parenthos is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its lack of airports, avant-garde cinema, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic population of 15.899 billion Parenthians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Parenthosian economy, worth a remarkable 2,258 trillion Candy Canes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 142,028 Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, a paperwork error has naval privateers being directed to attack land-locked nations, the nation's train stations are widely considered to be the ugliest in the South Pacific, and it's always rabbit season. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Parenthos's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parenthos is ranked 292,763^rd in the world and 4,723^rd in the South Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 9,089.81 Standard Monetary Units.

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