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The Amusing Ditties of Parody Songs is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its daily referendums, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 2.09 billion Parody Songsians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Accordianland. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.9%.

The powerhouse Parody Songsian economy, worth 167 trillion Laughs a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 80,295 Laughs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 231,416 per year while the poor average 22,121, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists, politicians have tenure, aristocratic family trees are beginning to resemble tumbleweeds, and reports of arson have doubled since the introduction of a privatised fire protection service. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parody Songs's national animal is the Funny Creature, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parody Songs is ranked 57,143^rd in the world and 2^nd in Weird Al for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,758.61 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.