The Republic of Space Fish is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its daily referendums, vat-grown people, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 1.071 billion Space Fishians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 58.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Space Fishian economy, worth 66.9 trillion Cards a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,433 Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers, ancestry test results arrive bundled with patent applications, diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm, and cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Space Fish's national animal is the Card, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Space Fish is ranked 243,393^rd in the world and 28^th in Fish Storage for Largest Populations, with 1.07 billion capita.