The Free Land of The Relatively Large Fish is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its vat-grown people, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 306 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 Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Relatively Large City. The average income tax rate is 32.0%.

The very strong Relatively Large Fishian economy, worth 23.7 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, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. 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 77,422 Fish, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

The official Relatively Large Fishian Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, tax avoidance is a serious affair, escalators are avoided at all costs, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Relatively Large City. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. 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 76,927^th in the world and 4^th in The Red Plains for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 101.65 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.