The Imperial Roman Empire of Beselius Rhomania is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 1.147 billion Romans 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 Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of constantinople. The average income tax rate is 41.6%.

The all-consuming Roman economy, worth 103 trillion Roman Dunnars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 90,499 Roman Dunnars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo, drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth, and airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beselius Rhomania's national animal is the The greek eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Beselius Rhomania is ranked 54,232^nd in the world and 603^rd in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 137.83 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.