The Republic of Participatoria is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, otherworldly petting zoo, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.521 billion Participatorians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 86.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Participatorian economy, worth 149 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,580 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies, coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms, and knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Participatoria's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Participatoria is ranked 106,168^th in the world and 470^th in Europeia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,160.33 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.