The Republic of Ropska is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 377 million Ropskans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 17.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ropskan economy, worth 21.2 trillion Rop Skars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,185 Rop Skars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, video evidence of cruel animal experiments tends to be of poor quality, foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, and the name of the "Butcher of Bigtopia" adorns shirts across Ropska. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ropska's national animal is the Amur Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ropska is ranked 100,115^th in the world and 2,565^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,005.33 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.