The Empire of Deustche is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 277 million Deustcheans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.0%.

The Deustchean economy, worth 16.5 trillion German Papiermarks 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. 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 59,730 German Papiermarks, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot, foreign nations often blame poverty and terrorism on Deustchean selfishness, and summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deustche's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Deustche is ranked 85,851^st in the world and 632^nd in the West Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,156.16 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.