The Republic of Ropska is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ubiquitous missile silos, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 322 million Ropskans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 17.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ropskan economy, worth 18.0 trillion Rop Skars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,787 Rop Skars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, video evidence of cruel animal experiments tends to be of poor quality, foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best, and the name of the "Butcher of Bigtopia" adorns shirts across Ropska. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ropska's national animal is the Amur Tiger.

Ropska is ranked 47,250^th in the world and 1,485^th in The North Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 17.01 average smiles per day.