The BETTER THAN U AND U KNOW IT of ROM is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by some dude named jeff with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.202 billion Stans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration also on the agenda, while Education and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of an abandoned warehouse. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient ROMian economy, worth an astonishing 10,473 trillion Steaks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 371,377 Steaks, with the richest citizens earning 8.6 times as much as the poorest.

The mouth-frothing Stans can be confused for a rabid Dragon, we all come from the sea, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, and singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. ROM's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is dragon worshippers.

ROM is ranked 309,818^th in the world and 1,434^th in Europeia for Most Cultured, scoring -77 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.