The Democratic Republic of Roano is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its aversion to nipples, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 566 million Roanoans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roto. The average income tax rate is 64.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Roanoan economy, worth 22.8 trillion Dollars a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,347 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban, five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, religious education is a new government priority, and park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roano's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Roano is ranked 73,484^th in the world and 1,006^th in The East Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,822.21 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.