The Republic of Aqualis is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by President Shen with a fair hand, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.769 billion Aqualisians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aquen. The average income tax rate is 88.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aqualisian economy, worth 486 trillion Verlian Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 129,043 Verlian Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers, and nobody knows why the caged River Dolphin sings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aqualis's national animal is the River Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Aqualis is ranked 299,164^th in the world and 8^th in The Verlian Commonwealth for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 15,098.08 Standard Monetary Units.