The Sultanate of Ropolan Tow is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Tony with an even hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 16.466 billion Ropolan Towians are prohibited from doing almost everything but make sure no one in government gets away with anything either.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rope. The average income tax rate is 26.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Ropolan Towian economy, worth a remarkable 2,424 trillion dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 147,241 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

The nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, vets have been drafted in to help "fix" those who fail the parental license exam, the only legal elections are for student body president, and litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ropolan Tow's national animal is the beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is WDF.

Ropolan Tow is ranked 60,203^rd in the world and 1^st in World Defense Force for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 4,734.14 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.