The Republic of Ocean Waters is a very large, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, digital currency, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 433 million Oceanians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The minute, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, although Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.6%.

The all-consuming Oceanian economy, worth 47.6 trillion Ocean Water Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 109,976 Ocean Water Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 737,217 per year while the poor average 6,164, a ratio of 119 to 1.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, and death row is annually emptied to feed the nation's hunger for televised murder-games. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Ocean Waters's national animal is the Whale, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Ocean Waters is ranked 4,035^th in the world and 77^th in The East Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 158.46 on the Bus Surprisal Index.