The Principality of Vogelweide is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 890 million Vogelweideans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.2%.

The very strong Vogelweidean economy, worth 41.6 trillion Kazimierzian marks a year, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 46,761 Kazimierzian marks, with the richest citizens earning 9.8 times as much as the poorest.

Sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor, scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards, theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, and Vogelweide has designated Vogelweide City as its capital city. Crime is moderate. Vogelweide's national animal is the Kuranta.

Vogelweide is ranked 3,221^st in the world and 1^st in Kazimierz for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 7,205.75 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.