The Mysterious Black Hole of Roless is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The High Queen of Roless with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, rampant corporate plagiarism, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.447 billion Rolessians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order is also considered important, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atchta. The average income tax rate is 98.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Rolessian economy, worth a remarkable 5,724 trillion Rezzats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 500,096 Rezzats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft, birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire, and a new "thought police" branch is being developed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roless's national animal is the Funky badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Funkyism.

Roless is ranked 387^th in the world and 3^rd in Forest for Most Corrupt Governments, with 686.71 kickbacks per hour.