The United Socialist States of Rothesia is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, avant-garde cinema, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 569 million Rothesians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 32.1%.

The thriving Rothesian economy, worth 48.7 trillion Sandorias a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 85,613 Sandorias, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

A shocking number of estate planners are beneficiaries of their clients' wills, cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high, the nation is infamous for its mass graves of discarded robots, and park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rothesia's national animal is the Horse.

Rothesia is ranked 113,207^th in the world and 956^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 548.45 pounds of wildlife per square mile.