The Allied States of Rotov is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, state-planned economy, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 675 million Rotovians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Education, Environment, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meowville. The average income tax rate is 26.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Rotovian economy, worth 35.4 trillion Catnips 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Gambling, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 52,492 Catnips, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

According to the latest national census as many as two-thirds of the respondents possibly consider 'violet' their favorite color, when conspiracy theorists talk about "government moles" they're referring to mysteriously mobile skin lesions, all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, and clergy do their best to cover up their old tattoos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rotov's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rotov is ranked 90,404^th in the world and 8^th in Norwegian forest cats street cats friend for Most Patriotic, with 16.14 flags saluted per person per day.