The Empire of Paragon Project is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 16 million Paragon Projectians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Paragon Projectian economy, worth 461 billion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 28,822 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The sound of wooden legs echo throughout Paragon Project after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paragon Project's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Paragon Project is ranked 273,980^th in the world and 3^rd in The Iron Domains for Most Developed, scoring 50.32 on the Human Development Index.