The United Socialist States of Aquali is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.98 billion Aqualians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 88.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Aqualian economy, worth 481 trillion Credits a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,628 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mandatory neutering has made purebred dogs a thing of the past, the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless, the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, and owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aquali's national animal is the Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Aquali is ranked 44,885^th in the world and 76^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,284.69 on the Gilded Widget Scale.