The Federation of Roeder is a mammoth, genial nation, renowned for its national health service, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 7.899 billion Roederians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Roederian economy, worth 955 trillion points a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 120,990 points, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place, ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, and photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in Leader's bedroom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roeder's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Roeder is ranked 9,715^th in the world and 241^st in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 90.74 on the Human Development Index.