The Oppressed Peoples of Brazil Paragon is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.059 billion Brazil Paragonians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Austin. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Brazil Paragonian economy, worth 13.2 trillion Organs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. Average income is 6,389 Organs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct, students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games, Brazil Paragon has designated Austin as its capital city, and Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brazil Paragon's national animal is the People, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brazil Paragon is ranked 268,285^th in the world and 2^nd in Domination Araga for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.94 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.