The Free Land of The Relatively Large Fish is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its national health service, ban on automobiles, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 229 million Relatively Large Fishers enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Spirituality, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.4%.

The very strong Relatively Large Fishian economy, worth 18.4 trillion Fish a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Gambling, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 80,228 Fish, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 321,394 per year while the poor average 13,437, a ratio of 23.9 to 1.

For some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Relatively Large Fishian language, a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, and Relatively Large Fishian watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Relatively Large Fish's national animal is the Relatively Large Fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Relatively Large Fish is ranked 204,749^th in the world and 14^th in The Red Plains for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -3.16 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.