The San Gabriel Valley City of Rosemead is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Sandra Armenta with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.21 billion Rosemeaders 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of 8838 E Valley Blvd Rosemead. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Rosemead economy, worth 413 trillion US Dollars 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. 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 50,379 US Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian, the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rosemead's national animal is the 49 800, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Los Angeles County.

Rosemead is ranked 94,350^th in the world and 58^th in The Cities of Southern California for Most Primitive, scoring 2.75 on the Scary Big Number Scale.