The Federal Republic of Emelio-Romagna is a small, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 40 million Emelio-Romagnans 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.3%.

The strong Emelio-Romagnan economy, worth 2.19 trillion Bottle Caps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 54,757 Bottle Caps, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', children grow up long before the paperwork for their lemonade stands can be sorted out, Leader's speeches are beloved by insomniacs, and sheep-like political loyalists repeat the mantra "one wheel bad, three wheels good". Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Emelio-Romagna's national animal is the Six-legged Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Emelio-Romagna is ranked 261,058^th in the world and 3,092^nd in the West Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.73 kickbacks per hour.