The Roll of Tape is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Attus Volla with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.41 billion Tapeians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Healthcare and Administration are also considered important, while Law & Order and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aloria. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Tapeian economy, worth a remarkable 1,002 trillion Cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 185,252 Cards, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,421,259 per year while the poor average 6,513, a ratio of 218 to 1.

The nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles, a flying elephant and Attus Volla share the same nickname, and you have to be a billionaire to qualify for welfare. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Tape's national animal is the Sticky Snakes, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Tape is ranked 288,416^th in the world and 6,345^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring -3.16 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.