The State of Continente is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 16.492 billion Paraguayans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Continentean economy, worth 695 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 42,148 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of betales are being blown on orbital weapons development, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Continente in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Continente's national animal is the deer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Continente is ranked 80,223^rd in the world and 41^st in Ancient Lands for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,642.73 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.