The Republic of Aqualis is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by President Shen with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, anti-smoking policies, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.689 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 87.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aqualisian economy, worth 467 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 126,729 Verlian Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, owning a fishing rod can cause you to be subject to military questioning, you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, and the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence. 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 161,948^th in the world and 4^th in The Verlian Commonwealth for Largest Populations, with 3.69 billion capita.