The Primeval Thalassocracy of Corryvreckan is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Queen Carline Hairst-Lanmara with an iron fist, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 928 million Vreckaners 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cathair Cailleach. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Corryvreckanian economy, worth 91.5 trillion claches a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 98,643 claches, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The land is no place for fish, policy reversals are more often graceful demi-détournés than u-turns, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and Corryvreckanian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Corryvreckan's national animal is the porpoise, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Corryvreckan is ranked 83,669^th in the world and 278^th in The Frontier Sea for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,695.87 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.