The Republic of Roure is a massive, genial nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.796 billion Roureans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Ruhren. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Rourean economy, worth 154 trillion Dakes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,379 Dakes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, and noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roure's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Roure is ranked 272,844^th in the world and 10,243^rd in Balder for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.8 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.