The Free Isles of Aqualine is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Gal Marinus with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, keen interest in outer space, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.156 billion Aqualineans 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crustacea. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Aqualinean economy, worth 838 trillion Sand Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 91,526 Sand Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise Gal Marinus on Aqualine's coulrophobia epidemic, citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers, Aqualineans suffer not the eggplant emoji to live, and foreign leaders are advising that Gal Marinus's letters must have gotten lost in the mail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aqualine's national animal is the Grapsus grapsus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is 🦀 c r a b 🦀.

Aqualine is ranked 26,614^th in the world and 276^th in 10000 Islands for Highest Poor Incomes, with 79,788.64 Standard Monetary Units.