The Holy Empire of Rousay is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, ban on automobiles, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 485 million Orcadians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirkwall. The average income tax rate is 44.6%.

The all-consuming Rousayian economy, worth 54.9 trillion Bottlecaps a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 113,138 Bottlecaps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

In coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho), being dead no longer has any benefits, parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children, and burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rousay's national animal is the Tammie Norrie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rousay is ranked 96,386^th in the world and 1^st in Orkneyjar for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 2,799.61 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.