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The Colony of Parzivole is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Personal Conscience with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.632 billion Parzivs are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Henrietta. The average income tax rate is 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Parzivolean economy, worth a remarkable 1,249 trillion Berries 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. 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 188,409 Berries, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Aristocratic family trees are beginning to resemble tumbleweeds, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, and Personal Conscience's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parzivole's national animal is the Gamer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Anarchy.

Parzivole is ranked 20,325^th in the world and 39^th in eta for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 307.07 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.