The Alte Kunst of Krieg is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Generalfeldmarschall with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, anti-smoking policies, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 31.449 billion Kriegians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kriegheim. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Kriegian economy, worth a remarkable 6,560 trillion bluts a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 208,600 bluts, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,285,027 per year while the poor average 14,736, a ratio of 87.2 to 1.

Justice is blinding, the government spends billions to protect Krieg from a disaster that is one in a million, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, and the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Krieg's national animal is the mensch, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Krieg.

Krieg is ranked 286,539^th in the world and 6^th in Austria for Least Corrupt Governments, with 62.87 percentage of bribes refused.