The Serene Thalassocracy of Aquastareite is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by King Dolph IV with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.577 billion Aquastareiteans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dolphinia. The average income tax rate is 78.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Aquastareitean economy, worth a remarkable 1,040 trillion Dolphin Coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,365 Dolphin Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters, any secret that gets off someone's chest is promptly replaced, children are often punished for the sins of the fathers, and in the Beginning was the Word and the Word was "Pragmatism". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aquastareite's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Aichism.

Aquastareite is ranked 316,159^th in the world and 17,161^st in Balder for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -13.89 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.