The Republic of Rocketfuel17 is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, enslaved workforce, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, devout population of 4.864 billion Rocketfuel17ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.3%.

The very strong Rocketfuel17ian economy, worth 410 trillion rocketfuels a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 84,465 rocketfuels, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 242,869 per year while the poor average 23,345, a ratio of 10.4 to 1.

The main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story, politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot, school football matches are usually five-a-side, and war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rocketfuel17's national animal is the rocketfuel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rocketfuel17 is ranked 275,557^th in the world and 244^th in House Boucher for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -5.66 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.