The Holy Empire of Rousay is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its national health service, complete lack of prisons, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 415 million Orcadians 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 medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirkwall. The average income tax rate is 43.0%.

The very strong Rousayian economy, worth 40.0 trillion Bottlecaps a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is 96,290 Bottlecaps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles, only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise Leader on Rousay's coulrophobia epidemic, and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rousay's national animal is the Tammie Norrie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rousay is ranked 89,932^nd in the world and 1^st in Orkneyjar for Safest, scoring 87.36 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.