The Federation of Roeder is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.796 billion Roederians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 47.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Roederian economy, worth 168 trillion points a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,303 points, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The fire protection service is wholly government-funded, it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, imitation is the sincerest form of felony, and business is adjusting to new gender equality policies in the workplace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roeder's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Roeder is ranked 71,212^th in the world and 1,495^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,047.29 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.