The State of Rodeo Girl is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 34.34 billion Rodeo Girlians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Rodeo Girlian economy, worth 129 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 3,764 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, otherwise healthy people are being sent to internment camps because they have VODAIS, Rodeo Girl has designated Westminster as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Rodeo Girl in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rodeo Girl's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rodeo Girl is ranked 226,758^th in the world and 10^th in World for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.