The International State of ROLASS is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President-Emperor Rolass with an iron fist, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 32.819 billion Rolassians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Reda. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Rolassian economy, worth an astonishing 12,649 trillion Slavic Zloties 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 led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 385,419 Slavic Zloties, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation, ROLASS is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned, and all facts are created equal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ROLASS's national animal is the Griffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Rolassian Roman Catholicism.

ROLASS is ranked 409^th in the world and 1^st in New World Alliance for Most Cultured, scoring 545 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.