The United Kingdom of Rosenesse is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Evan Thomas Wright with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, ban on automobiles, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 23.744 billion Rosenesseans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirby. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rosenessean economy, worth a remarkable 5,260 trillion rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 221,550 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction, and it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Rosenesse. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rosenesse's national animal is the barn owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Rosenesse is ranked 949^th in the world and 1^st in Asus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 81.61 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.