The Federative Socialist States of Aquelistan is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Randall Harkness with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 5.217 billion Aquelisians 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anjoushaven. The average income tax rate is 46.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aquelisian economy, worth a remarkable 1,154 trillion Qens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 221,310 Qens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Freedom is never freely given — only when the alternative is too expensive, the nation has cemented its own architectural style, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, and most ambassadors from Aquelistan retire only a few years after being appointed. Crime is totally unknown. Aquelistan's national animal is the Frend bird, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Aquelistan is ranked 102,507^th in the world and 5,479^th in Lazarus for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 46.63 Effective Tax Rate.