The Republic of Rooby is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, state-planned economy, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.274 billion Roobyians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.0%.

The thriving Roobyian economy, worth 290 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 68,023 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 224,915 per year while the poor average 15,379, a ratio of 14.6 to 1.

Children who display even minimal sporting aptitude are immediately assigned a personal trainer, the statue in the Lowe Plaza has a solar panel for a hat, male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness', and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rooby's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rooby is ranked 44,943^rd in the world and 2^nd in The Many States of the Cet for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.