The Theocracy of Western Roman Clerical State is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Pope Drennan I with an iron fist, and remarkable for its aversion to nipples, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.324 billion Romans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rome. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Western Roman Clerical Statean economy, worth 331 trillion Crosses a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 142,603 Crosses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Dozens of viewers tune in weekly to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, police frequently raid drugstores in search of contraband bottles of New Spice aftershave, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, and builders across Western Roman Clerical State are blocked up with orders for new public loos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Western Roman Clerical State's national animal is the Lamb, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Western Roman Clerical State is ranked 39,260^th in the world and 20^th in Catholic for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 277,062 Standard Monetary Units.