The Republic of Fish HQ is a very large, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 246 million Fish HQians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.0%.

The Fish HQian economy, worth 12.5 trillion Cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 50,785 Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fish HQ's national animal is the Card, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Fish HQ is ranked 310,061^st in the world and 2^nd in Fish HQ for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.95 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.