The United Socialist States of Rosvan is a tiny, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The quiet, industrious population of 8 million Rosvanians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 55.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fair Rosvanian economy, worth 269 billion Rosvan Solenid Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,683 Rosvan Solenid Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, nothing is beneath the government after it has extracted all the oil, politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament, and the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rosvan's national animal is the Solmaran Condor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Rosvan is ranked 202,280^th in the world and 500^th in Council of Asia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 289.13 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.