The Colony of Aquarii 001 is a mammoth, pleasant nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 8.451 billion Aquarii 001ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 64.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Aquarii 001ian economy, worth 619 trillion Helices a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 73,345 Helices, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is a proud sponsor of the National Gaming Association, people who have lived their entire lives in Aquarii 001 are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains, and citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aquarii 001's national animal is the spectral cat.

Aquarii 001 is ranked 90,928^th in the world and 5^th in Founderless for Most Developed, scoring 63.78 on the Human Development Index.