The Marquessate of Kidderminster is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Marquess of Kidderminster with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 20.952 billion Kidderminsterians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lindenwood. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Kidderminsterian economy, worth an astonishing 12,876 trillion Liebsmarks a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 614,588 Liebsmarks, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

The horniness of the great-horned sparrow is considered a national priority, brazen mayors claim official expenses to pay for their drug habits, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, and the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kidderminster's national animal is the sparrow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Kidderminster is ranked 5,901^st in the world and 3^rd in Der Leibwache for Most Cultured, scoring 145 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.