The Christmas of Rotenaplistan is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Santa with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.44 billion Rotenaplistanis love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, outspoken government prioritizes Industry, with Education, Welfare, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Defense and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rotenapolis. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Rotenaplistani economy, worth 417 trillion Candy Canes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,466 Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Calling out of the blue has become taboo, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, and spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rotenaplistan's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Aplixology.

Rotenaplistan is ranked 307,108^th in the world and 4,998^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -9.49 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.