The Great Green Empire of Rothaland is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Her Majesty Queen Astrid I with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 11.286 billion Roths are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Knigtesburg. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rothish economy, worth a remarkable 2,523 trillion Rothamarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 223,605 Rothamarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, the fattest folk in Rothaland look to be the happiest ones, and citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rothaland's national animal is the Mute Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Rothaland is ranked 3,451^st in the world and 2^nd in Rosaria for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 663.43 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.