The Wide Sea of TheMaritimes is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, keen interest in outer space, and strictly enforced bedtime. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 42.349 billion TheMaritimesians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Policy, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halifax. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The all-consuming TheMaritimesian economy, worth a remarkable 7,098 trillion wishes a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 167,624 wishes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land, making up random numbers to name new asteroids is the bulk of astronomers' work, the government guarantees that tourists will have the ultimate trip on their trips, and immersive video game experiences are interrupted by incessant disclaimer pop-ups. Crime is totally unknown. TheMaritimes's national animal is the jellyfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

TheMaritimes is ranked 1,038^th in the world and 3^rd in The Maritimes for Safest, scoring 156.72 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.