The Lazy Builders of Rom Was Not Built In A Day is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, anti-smoking policies, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.985 billion Rom Was Not Built In A Dayians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Rom Was Not Built In A Dayian economy, worth a remarkable 1,280 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 91,528 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, the crispy fried liver of a Tiger is prized as a tasty treat by vagrants, and 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Rom Was Not Built In A Day's radio stations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rom Was Not Built In A Day's national animal is the Tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Rom Was Not Built In A Day is ranked 39,255^th in the world and 1^st in Riberia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.01 law-abiding acts per hour.