The GENERALLY HONOURABLE NATION of ROM is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by some dude named jeff with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, flagrant waste-dumping, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.159 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, although Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration are also considered important, 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 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient ROMian economy, worth a remarkable 8,279 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 357,498 Steaks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is under martial law, it is mandatory for actors to exit stage left, government officials who do an offal job get smoked, and God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone. 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 523^rd in the world and 18^th in The North Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 633.68 kickbacks per hour.