The Tumbling Waves of Sunrise from the Sea is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 35.432 billion Sunrisers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Social Policy, Environment, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunrise. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The all-consuming a Sunriser economy, worth a remarkable 7,103 trillion poems a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 200,473 poems, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, out-of-work actors say they can't complain, and the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42. Crime is totally unknown. Sunrise from the Sea's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Cat worship.

Sunrise from the Sea is ranked 3,236^th in the world and 2^nd in Philosophy 115 for Highest Food Quality, scoring 240.01 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.