The Roll of Tape is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Card Machine with an iron fist, and notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.199 billion Tapeians 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 tiny, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Healthcare and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and Law & Order aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aloria. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Tapeian economy, worth a remarkable 1,875 trillion Cards a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 183,910 Cards, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,667,569 per year while the poor average 2,373, a ratio of 702 to 1.

The native owl population is in permanent hibernation, old folks yearn for the days when young people saw bloodthirsty death matches with their own eyes instead of through a screen, there's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building, and comic books avoid plot inconsistencies by removing the plot. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Tape's national animal is the Sticky Snakes, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Tape is ranked 53,119^th in the world and 957^th in The North Pacific for Largest Governments, scoring 22.14 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.