The Great of Hansa Federation is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Big Francis with an iron fist, and remarkable for its fear of technology, avowedly heterosexual populace, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.179 billion Hansans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Lubeck. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Hansa Federationian economy, worth a remarkable 1,830 trillion Baldwin Bucks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 150,283 Baldwin Bucks, with the richest citizens earning 6.1 times as much as the poorest.

Hansa Federationian coins aren't to be taken at face value, we all come from the sea, repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events, and children in school learn that marriage and slavery go hand in hand. Crime is all-pervasive, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Hansa Federation's national animal is the Loon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Printerism.

Hansa Federation is ranked 28,328^th in the world and 17^th in Lands End for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 63,720.33 Standard Monetary Units.