The Free Land of Roanoake is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 9 million Roanoakeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The imploded Roanoakean economy, worth 50.2 billion Libras 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 5,572 Libras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military funding has been stripped back, Roanoake's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, cars are banned, and scummy-looking teenagers outside government buildings sell bureaucrats spoofed ShortTok accounts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roanoake's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Roanoake is ranked 292,666^th in the world and 1,121^st in Concord for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6.99 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.