The Black Holy Dominion of The Hamburger Kunsthalle is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Helmut Schmidt with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The democratic, humorless population of 4.942 billion Hamburgers enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hamburg. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Hamburger Kunsthallean economy, worth a remarkable 2,583 trillion Gold Bars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 a breathtaking 522,864 Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Army uniforms are replaced en masse to accommodate adult soldiers, whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Hamburger Kunsthallean Embarrassments, the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause, and citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Hamburger Kunsthalle's national animal is the Vampire Bull Reichsadler, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Athyism.

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is ranked 753^rd in the world and 6^th in United Earth Government for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 19,982.55 on the Gilded Widget Scale.