The Uncontacted Island State of Pelagic Thylateria is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 23.196 billion Pelagic Thylaterians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 56.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Pelagic Thylaterian economy, worth 398 trillion seashells a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 17,179 seashells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey, and the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pelagic Thylateria's national animal is the blue dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Pelagic Thylateria is ranked 133,066^th in the world and 2^nd in Ocean for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.44 law-abiding acts per hour.