The Ocean Marshal of The Grand Dolphin is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Kendall Wispa-Kiive with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 4.013 billion dolphins are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Grand Pod. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Dolphin economy, worth 419 trillion fins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,424 fins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Nude folks shun cloaks at the seashore, the well-to-do in The North Pacific are never on time for important appointments, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, and community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Grand Dolphin's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Salmon Hat.

The Grand Dolphin is ranked 13,834^th in the world and 465^th in The North Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 3,865.06 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.