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The Aquatic State of Waterstania is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Grand Marshal Magnus Coralis with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 954 million Oceanids 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oceania. The average income tax rate is 59.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Oceanid economy, worth 190 trillion Cubic Miles of Water 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. 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 an impressive 199,814 Cubic Miles of Water, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end, nations across the world are quick to praise Grand Marshal Magnus Coralis's good looks and intellectual prowess, the only Maxxmas gift frontline troops receive from officers is a bullet with the enemy's name on it, and every worker receives exactly the same pay regardless of productivity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Waterstania's national animal is the Aquamarine Coral, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Waterstania is ranked 12,361^st in the world and 14^th in Karma for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 80,125.43 Standard Monetary Units.