The Environmentalists of The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Julie Packard with an even hand, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 20.626 billion Monterey Bay Aquariumians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great Tide Pool. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Monterey Bay Aquariumian economy, worth a remarkable 5,118 trillion kelps a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 248,147 kelps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs, and tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests. Crime is totally unknown. The Monterey Bay Aquarium's national animal is the sea otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Animism.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is ranked 266,287^th in the world and 6^th in The State Of California for Highest Crime Rates, with 1.5 crimes per hour.