The Armed Republic of Rosuncommon is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its triple-decker prams, complete absence of social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 298 million Rosuncommoners are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 59.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Rosuncommonian economy, worth 8.26 trillion Punts a year, is quite specialized and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,710 Punts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government spends millions of tax Punts on vouchers to pay for expensive private schools, one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man, on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, and more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rosuncommon's national animal is the cows eating grass yeno like, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rosuncommon is ranked 66,366^th in the world and 2,337^th in The North Pacific for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens, with 52.16 Whatever.