The GENERALLY HONOURABLE NATION of ROM is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by some dude named jeff with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and enforced nudity. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 24.642 billion Stans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration also on the agenda, while Education and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of an abandoned warehouse. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient ROMian economy, worth a remarkable 8,986 trillion Steaks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. 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 amazing 364,675 Steaks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,095,662 per year while the poor average 94,746, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles, even doll houses and dog kennels have to be able to withstand rigorous earthquake testing, barges of dissidents are being "reeducated through water therapy" in the South Dragon Sea, and corrective labour camps either end political dissent or kill the dissenters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. ROM's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is dragon worshippers.

ROM is ranked 333,299^th in the world and 5,722^nd in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 4.45 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.