The Harmonious Orchard of Fishy Apples is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Queen Jackie IV with an even hand, and renowned for its ritual sacrifices, keen interest in outer space, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 15.682 billion Mer-Apples have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Environment, and Administration also on the agenda, while Welfare and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Sweet Apple Ocean. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fishy Applesian economy, worth a remarkable 3,680 trillion Farts a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 234,693 Farts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Queen Jackie IV's speeches are beloved by insomniacs, the The Sweet Apple Ocean XV Regiment (aka "The Goat Starers") have yet to win a battle, war vets look after war animals, and gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Fishy Apples's national animal is the Mermaid, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is The Children of the Bobbing Apple.

Fishy Apples is ranked 4,159^th in the world and 2^nd in The Bunny Fire for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,577.98 pounds of wildlife per square mile.