The Dictatorship of Ropen is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Predrag Bojević with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, pith helmet sales, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.18 billion Ropen 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caskarta. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Ropenian economy, worth 450 trillion Septemns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 206,636 Septemns, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,304,148 per year while the poor average 13,707, a ratio of 95.1 to 1.

Criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, there's a mortuary next to every Ropenian restaurant, and police pull people off the street for even mentioning the word plane. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ropen's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Ropen is ranked 21,464^th in the world and 97^th in Conch Kingdom for Healthiest Citizens, with 10.01 bananas ingested per day.