The Republic of The Baltic Seas is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.783 billion Mariners enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blue Sea. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Mariner economy, worth 383 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 101,421 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Blue Sea for fear of causing a fuss, left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks, and the government is attempting to impose a new national language on the public. Crime is totally unknown. The Baltic Seas's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Baltic Seas is ranked 19,109^th in the world and 1,067^th in Lazarus for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 8,994.74 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.