The Empire of Rouricia is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 6.53 billion Rouricians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.4%.

The powerhouse Rourician economy, worth 526 trillion marks a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,685 marks, with the richest citizens earning 9.0 times as much as the poorest.

Children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, and people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem. Rouricia's national animal is the elephant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Rouricia is ranked 44,225^th in the world and 826^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 56,157.28 Standard Monetary Units.