The Kingdom of Rookley is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Aethelberht with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 19.779 billion Rookleyans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bagwich. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Rookleyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,554 trillion vects a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,587 vects, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Rookley's radio stations, the government runs a surplus by selling its citizens, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, and astronauts take one small step for Rookley and one giant step backward from confrontation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rookley's national animal is the Wildcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is pagan.

Rookley is ranked 260,289^th in the world and 3^rd in Vectis for Rudest Citizens, with 23.91 insults per minute.