The Republic of Three Fishes is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 421 million Three-Fishesians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aeterna Piscium. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Three-Fishesian economy, worth 49.7 trillion piscariuses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 117,943 piscariuses, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 564,944 per year while the poor average 14,408, a ratio of 39.2 to 1.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, casino tax breaks are even bigger than their jackpots, and businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Three Fishes's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Three Fishes is ranked 14,195^th in the world and 673^rd in the Rejected Realms for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens, with 56.34 Whatever.