The United Islands of Aquapelago is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Nalani Kalama with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory vegetarianism, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 13.81 billion Aquapelagans 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chaetodon. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aquapelagan economy, worth a remarkable 1,431 trillion Aquapelagan francs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,675 Aquapelagan francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar, armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough, the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, and arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated. Crime is totally unknown. Aquapelago's national animal is the Island Pterosaur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aquapelago is ranked 20,886^th in the world and 3^rd in Cinderia for Nudest, with 219 cheeks per square mile.