The City of Light of Paris is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its lack of airports, fear of technology, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.007 billion Parisians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.8%.

The powerhouse Parisian economy, worth a remarkable 2,159 trillion francs 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, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. 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 93,864 francs, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

Leader's luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site, six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion, passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters, and nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Paris's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Paris is ranked 282,497^th in the world and 10,596^th in Osiris for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -108.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.