The Free Land of FishTo is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Billy fish-sticks with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.291 billion FishToans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Subequatorial nation capital. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The FishToan economy, worth 184 trillion Hougles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 56,176 Hougles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows, visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers, guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, and signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. FishTo's national animal is the Communist, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Fishism.

FishTo is ranked 24,473^rd in the world and 645^th in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 52.91 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.