The Community of Roaming Fortunes is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.065 billion Communals enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 87.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Communal economy, worth 89.9 trillion Favours a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 84,371 Favours, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roaming Fortunes's national animal is the Loreseeker Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Roaming Fortunes is ranked 59,620^th in the world and 93^rd in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,291.94 on the Gilded Widget Scale.