The Republic of Aqualis is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by President Shen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.705 billion Aqualisians 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aquen. The average income tax rate is 87.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aqualisian economy, worth 470 trillion Verlian Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 127,096 Verlian Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end, there's always a Bigtopian willing to eat President Shen's table scraps, city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty, and the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Aquen for fear of causing a fuss. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aqualis's national animal is the River Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Aqualis is ranked 259,784^th in the world and 7^th in The Verlian Commonwealth for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4.56 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.