The Dictatorship of Retropia is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its fear of technology, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 29 million Retropians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Retropian economy, worth 896 billion Funions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 30,898 Funions, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners, and emergency responders spend more time in the air than giving air. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Retropia's national animal is the Tortoise, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Retropia is ranked 138,331^st in the world and 88^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,286.92 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.