The Republic of Rocketfuel49 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 4.603 billion Rocketfuel49ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Administration, and Law & Order are also considered important. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.9%.

The all-consuming Rocketfuel49ian economy, worth 438 trillion Rocketfuels 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 Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 95,351 Rocketfuels, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction, citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, and the latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rocketfuel49's national animal is the Rocketfuel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Rocketfuel49 is ranked 34,593^rd in the world and 30^th in House Boucher for Largest Black Market, with 44.0 trillion Standard Monetary Units.