The United Socialist States of Rosterbach is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 612 million Rosterbachians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 80.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Rosterbachian economy, worth 23.0 trillion Kroners 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 37,652 Kroners, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists visiting the nation are harangued for being capitalist pig-dogs, the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property, decades-serving politicians are now both out of touch and out of time, and criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rosterbach's national animal is the Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Rosterbach is ranked 42,894^th in the world and 51^st in The Social Liberal Union for Most Cultured, scoring 74 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.