The Commonwealth of The Fishmans is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 846 million Fishfriends are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Setagaya. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving a Fishfriend economy, worth 81.4 trillion yen 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Retail, and Cheese Exports. 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 96,160 yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, and crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Fishmans's national animal is the squirrel, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Fishmans is ranked 20,452^nd in the world and 64^th in the Plains of Perdition for Highest Poor Incomes, with 90,472.51 Standard Monetary Units.