The Free Land of Rottidam is a small, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 29 million Rottidammers enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Welfare, with Education, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 55.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Rottidamian economy, worth 664 billion Gold coins 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. 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 22,903 Gold coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voters are one of the nation's top imports, families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs, supervisors in Rottidam commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, and glamping Rottidammers won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Rottidam's national animal is the Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Rottidam is ranked 107,126^th in the world and 258^th in Talonia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 793.54 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.