The Pristine Blue Waters of Namakan is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 993 million Namakanians 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kettle Falls. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Namakanian economy, worth 86.5 trillion Greenstones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is 87,111 Greenstones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, an endless multinational bureaucracy connects the Red Bloc, and park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets. Crime is totally unknown. Namakan's national animal is the Lake Trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Namakan is ranked 126,054^th in the world and 1,370^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 711.61 on the Hickory Productivity Index.