The Great Caliphate Reich of Parxcraama is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Muhammad Parx with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 872 million Parxcraamen are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Parxcraam City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.6%.

The strong Parxcraam economy, worth 61.3 trillion Parxcraam dollars 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Tourism. 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 70,270 Parxcraam dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 288,999 per year while the poor average 11,264, a ratio of 25.7 to 1.

The nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage, a bureaucratic fight over PIA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations, visions of giant pink lions are a common side effect after Parxcraamen eat their meals, and love is in the air. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Parxcraama's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Parxcraama is ranked 178,884^th in the world and 9^th in Goats of the Universe for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 1,144.54 on the Hickory Productivity Index.