The Wide Sea of TheMaritimes is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 37.179 billion TheMaritimesians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Policy, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halifax. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The thriving TheMaritimesian economy, worth a remarkable 5,829 trillion wishes a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 156,800 wishes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students, people can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler', and the official TheMaritimesian Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child. Crime is totally unknown. TheMaritimes's national animal is the jellyfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

TheMaritimes is ranked 419^th in the world and 1^st in The Maritimes for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 49,586.91 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.