The Confederacy of Roosten is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 204 million Roostenians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 22.0%.

The thriving Roostenian economy, worth 16.5 trillion pesos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 81,073 pesos, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Leader's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, and all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers. Crime is totally unknown. Roosten's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Roosten is ranked 22,524^th in the world and 1^st in New California for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,095.8 on the Clooney Contribution Index.