The Empire of Deep Sea creature enthusiasts is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.916 billion Deep Sea creature enthusiastsians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of fish city. The average income tax rate is 89.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Deep Sea creature enthusiastsian economy, worth 297 trillion FishCoins a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 102,024 FishCoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, the government is washing its hands of alleged corruption, and visiting the best Deep Sea creature enthusiastsian restaurants requires keeping a visa on file. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deep Sea creature enthusiasts's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Deep Sea creature enthusiasts is ranked 7,823^rd in the world and 164^th in Europe for Nicest Citizens, with 37.99 average smiles per day.