The Community of Rhostohn is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 608 million Rhostohnians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ambercall. The average income tax rate is 78.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Rhostohnian economy, worth 41.6 trillion Rhams a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Average income is 68,483 Rhams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Being dead no longer has any benefits, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, the saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work", and unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police. Crime is totally unknown. Rhostohn's national animal is the red-tailed swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rhostohn is ranked 283,305^th in the world and 94^th in The Western Isles for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 24.9 on the Bus Surprisal Index.