The Democratic Republic of Rico Roca is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Gilberto Gonzales with a fair hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 26.484 billion Rico Rocans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of T'chnok. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rico Rocan economy, worth a remarkable 4,400 trillion pesos a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 166,143 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, and weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rico Roca's national animal is the Rico Rocan Amazon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Rico Roca is ranked 1,531^st in the world and 2^nd in Caribbean for Nicest Citizens, with 77.71 average smiles per day.