The Tumbling Waves of Sunrise from the Sea is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 36.307 billion Sunrisers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Social Policy, Environment, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunrise. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The all-consuming a Sunriser economy, worth a remarkable 7,278 trillion poems a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 200,473 poems, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, out-of-work actors say they can't complain, and the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42. Crime is totally unknown. Sunrise from the Sea's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Cat worship.

Sunrise from the Sea is ranked 3,510^th in the world and 2^nd in Philosophy 115 for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,856.33 pounds of wildlife per square mile.