The Free Land of Trout Island is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.673 billion Trout Islandians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Public Transport also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.0%.

The powerhouse Trout Islandian economy, worth 134 trillion Trout a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 80,473 Trout, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 280,947 per year while the poor average 16,765, a ratio of 16.8 to 1.

The nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed, claiming to have performed the Heimlich Maneuver is a popular defense for assault charges, the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings", and the government response to disaster victims starving for bread is "let them eat stale cake". Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Trout Island's national animal is the Trout, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Trout Island is ranked 74,263^rd in the world and 7^th in Aetheria for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.99 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.