The Republic of The Royal Gazette is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, soft-spoken computers, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 549 million Royal Gazetteans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 18.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Royal Gazettean economy, worth 24.5 trillion ✦✦✦✦✦s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 44,565 ✦✦✦✦✦s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary", pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days', and the latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Royal Gazette's national animal is the ✦✦✦✦✦, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Royal Gazette is ranked 162,948^th in the world and 115^th in Rosartemis for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 231.11 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.