The Fresh Catch of Altafishers is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Fishy McFishface with an iron fist, and renowned for its conspicuous electricity pylons, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.05 billion Altafishersians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Environment is also considered important, while Education and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Across the Pond. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Altafishersian economy, worth 589 trillion fish a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 193,441 fish, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,011,033 per year while the poor average 19,889, a ratio of 50.8 to 1.

The latest government policy passed by a close shave, meetings involving club finances are frequently broken up by men in black suits, the average video game can be completed over lunch break, and sometimes a single pallbearer is all you need. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Altafishers's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Catch.

Altafishers is ranked 12,146^th in the world and 31^st in Panama Papers for Highest Average Incomes, with 193,441.44 Standard Monetary Units.