The Republic of Rongaba is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its digital currency, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.393 billion Rongabans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 83.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Rongaban economy, worth 190 trillion rubles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 137,028 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself, and whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rongaba's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Rongaba is ranked 224,836^th in the world and 812^th in Concord for Highest Drug Use, scoring 76.46 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.