The United Socialist States of Roulix is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Franz Von Strucker with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.094 billion Roulixians 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 Administration, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paris. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Roulixian economy, worth a remarkable 1,480 trillion Roulinks 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 105,032 Roulinks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them, the Messiah (formerly known as Brian) is a mayoral candidate, the freedom to be free is always just out of reach, and every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roulix's national animal is the Falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Roulix is ranked 17,328^th in the world and 3^rd in The Great Red Union for Lowest Crime Rates, with 91.98 law-abiding acts per hour.