The Worker's Republic of THE daily Fish is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Comrade Ivan Yerkov with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 5.734 billion daily Fishians 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 Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Delograd. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient daily Fishian economy, worth 886 trillion Worker's Sandies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 154,547 Worker's Sandies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are afraid to go out at night due to the ubiquity of hardened jaywalkers, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, sweat stains are proof of political acumen, and children's TV shows are having a gay old time. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. THE daily Fish's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

THE daily Fish is ranked 229,267^th in the world and 242^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 4,667.71 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.