The Commonwealth of Ringed Seal is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Old flippers with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.623 billion Ringed Seals 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 medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baffin Bay. The average income tax rate is 48.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Ringed Seal economy, worth 117 trillion Fibshes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 72,690 Fibshes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin, craps take up a lot of time, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ringed Seal's national animal is the RINGED SEAL, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Ringed Seal is ranked 22,587^th in the world and 1,225^th in Balder for Most Cultured, scoring 85 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.