The Fresh Catch of Altafishers is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Fishy McFishface with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.061 billion Altafishersians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Environment also on the agenda, while Education and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Across the Pond. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Altafishersian economy, worth 592 trillion fish a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 193,597 fish, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 998,844 per year while the poor average 20,440, a ratio of 48.9 to 1.

Libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it, all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number, the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying, and anniversaries of major historical events pass unnoticed. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Altafishers's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Catch.

Altafishers is ranked 277,816^th in the world and 60^th in Panama Papers for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -24.49 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.