The Pubs of Parkplace is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 42.352 billion Parkplaceans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ParrrrTay City. The average income tax rate is 81.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Parkplacean economy, worth a remarkable 3,719 trillion Daquireses a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,825 Daquireses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes, white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits, eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance, and drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parkplace's national animal is the Cookie Monster, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Parkplace is ranked 288,267^th in the world and 127^th in Canada for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -18.22 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.