The Holy Empire of Rousay is a huge, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 572 million Orcadians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirkwall. The average income tax rate is 57.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Rousayian economy, worth 63.3 trillion Bottlecaps a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 110,695 Bottlecaps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Kindergartners are taught to loathe poor trigger discipline and citrus, fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers, children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia, and the economy is booming loud enough to drown out the cries of its digital labour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rousay's national animal is the Tammie Norrie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rousay is ranked 30,742^nd in the world and 1^st in Orkneyjar for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 21,394.99 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.