The Community of A Small Fish in a Big Pond is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 14.656 billion Small Fish in a Big Pondians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 48.8%.

The all-consuming Small Fish in a Big Pondian economy, worth a remarkable 1,220 trillion planktons 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Gambling, Tourism, Soda Sales, and Retail. 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 83,298 planktons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... Small Fish in a Big Pondian satellites can detect it, the first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give, pootling steam trains carry delighted tourists and frustrated businessmen from city to city at a snail's pace, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Small Fish in a Big Pond's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

A Small Fish in a Big Pond is ranked 148,258^th in the world and 2,148^th in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -52.97 on the Scary Big Number Scale.