The Republic of Resource Petroleum is a massive, genial nation, notable for its daily referendums, pith helmet sales, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 2.233 billion Resource Petroleumians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 43.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Resource Petroleumian economy, worth 277 trillion Monies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 124,275 Monies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians accost strangers in the street to ask their problems, the demands of climate protestors are measured in spray-paint can sales, a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion, and politicians are forced to wear portable lie detectors at all times. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Resource Petroleum's national animal is the Card, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Resource Petroleum is ranked 26,575^th in the world and 1,146^th in Osiris for Highest Poor Incomes, with 79,964.8 Standard Monetary Units.