The Pink Holy Lucky Christmas of United States of Rhodes is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 4.916 billion Rhodesians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 69.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Rhodesian economy, worth 666 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 135,542 Candy Cane Gold Bars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

United States of Rhodes has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations, you can't spell society without CIS, and the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. United States of Rhodes's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Athyism.

United States of Rhodes is ranked 17,104^th in the world and 724^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 97 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.