The Free Land of Rostosia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Akhlutus Monarchus with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.887 billion Rostosians 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Excerbit. The average income tax rate is 81.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Rostosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,217 trillion Bytes a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 72,101 Bytes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Clergy never mention brand names for fear of losing their government subsidies, centuries-old legal documents detailing agnatic-cognatic gavelkind succession are being dusted off again, citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office, and politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back. Crime is totally unknown. Rostosia's national animal is the Barnacle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Rostosia is ranked 36,654^th in the world and 2^nd in Fildegris Plains for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.17 law-abiding acts per hour.