The Republic of Piscina is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.05 billion Piscinans 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Civitas Libera. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Piscinan economy, worth a remarkable 1,405 trillion Certainly Not Yerbits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 155,259 Certainly Not Yerbits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing, coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms, and rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million Certainly Not Yerbits of property damage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Piscina's national animal is the Salmon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Piscina is ranked 289,819^th in the world and 11,262^nd in Balder for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.33 kickbacks per hour.