The Mysterious Black Hole of Roless is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The High Queen of Roless with an even hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 16.547 billion Rolessians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atchta. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Rolessian economy, worth a remarkable 9,388 trillion Rezzats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 567,387 Rezzats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Email killed the radio star, Roless isn't what it used to be, there are increasing complaints that male AI assistants have aggressive voices, and keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of Rolessians. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Roless's national animal is the Funky Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Funkyism.

Roless is ranked 309,766^th in the world and 282^nd in Forest for Most Cultured, scoring -8 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.