The Socialist Federal Republic of Aqual is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Don Quijote with a fair hand, and notable for its hatred of cheese, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.016 billion Aqualias 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toboso. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The very strong Aqualian economy, worth a remarkable 1,038 trillion Quels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 94,227 Quels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, one can wake up in Aqual and have breakfast in Bigtopia, and a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum. Crime is totally unknown. Aqual's national animal is the Frog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aqual is ranked 28,347^th in the world and 1,166^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.52 law-abiding acts per hour.