The Größer-Deutsches Kaiserreich of Drachen is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Kaiser Friedrich IV with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.571 billion Germans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient German economy, worth a remarkable 1,609 trillion Reichmarks a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 187,785 Reichmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

People say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, public ferries only carry enough lifeboats for the first-class passengers, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, and a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Drachen's national animal is the Imperial Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is German Lutheranism.

Drachen is ranked 1,838^th in the world and 13^th in Fifth Empire for Lowest Crime Rates, with 142.26 law-abiding acts per hour.