The Republic of Rocketfuel44 is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 4.649 billion Rocketfuel44ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 58.8%.

The strong Rocketfuel44ian economy, worth 266 trillion Rocketfuels a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,326 Rocketfuels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, government popup ads are springing up like weeds, cities in Rocketfuel44 declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings, and warning signs caution Rocketfuel44ians where they may fall off 'the edge of the world'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rocketfuel44's national animal is the Rocketfuel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rocketfuel44 is ranked 230,579^th in the world and 133^rd in House Boucher for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -4.67 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.