The Federation of Roeder is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 8.043 billion Roederians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 50.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Roederian economy, worth 885 trillion points a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 110,057 points, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Clerics are taught that silence is golden and duct tape is silver, a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street", war criminals are given full state funerals, and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roeder's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Roeder is ranked 319,518^th in the world and 3,947^th in the South Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 20.82 on the Bus Surprisal Index.