The Empire of Schlossberg is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Emperor Slotaningbaginshing with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 845 million Schlossbergians 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 Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Schlossintag. The average income tax rate is 62.4%.

The strong Schlossbergian economy, worth 70.2 trillion Scholssentags 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 83,078 Scholssentags, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired, and the military will start wars with other nations on a lark. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Schlossberg's national animal is the Ram, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Schlossberg is ranked 66,404^th in the world and 265^th in the Outback for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 62.44 Effective Tax Rate.