The Worker's Republic of THE daily Fish is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Comrade Ivan Yerkov with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, soft-spoken computers, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate population of 5.702 billion daily Fishians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Delograd. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient daily Fishian economy, worth 880 trillion Worker's Sandies 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 154,344 Worker's Sandies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy, and drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. THE daily Fish's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

THE daily Fish is ranked 23,962^nd in the world and 83^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Average Incomes, with 154,344.5 Standard Monetary Units.