The Republic of Rosebriar is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 62 million Roserin are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 57.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Rosebriarian economy, worth 1.67 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 26,992 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Increasing numbers of children in Rosebriar have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers, all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave, battlefield gains are quickly lost when enemies don't respect a time-out, and foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Rosebriar will pay them to stop. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rosebriar's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rosebriar is ranked 182,605^th in the world and 1,106^th in the West Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 31.71 on the Bus Surprisal Index.