The Republic of Roulette Wheel is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, prohibition of alcohol, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.081 billion Roulette Wheelians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 31.0%.

The strong Roulette Wheelian economy, worth 71.5 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 66,186 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

High school bands practice by moonlight, the government has declared that sharing is uncaring, drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, and pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roulette Wheel's national animal is the dog, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Roulette Wheel is ranked 50,206^th in the world and 2^nd in Project Casino for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 2,096.1 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.