The Republic of Ancient Roma is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The devout population of 630 million Romans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roma. The average income tax rate is 55.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Roman economy, worth 18.6 trillion denariis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 29,494 denariis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?", and historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ancient Roma's national animal is the Black eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ancient Roma is ranked 241,361^st in the world and 25^th in militian right wing for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -14.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.