The Republic of Wolfgang Luth is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, prohibition of alcohol, and suspicion of poets. The cynical, devout population of 26.036 billion Wolfgang Luthians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49.7%.

The all-consuming Wolfgang Luthian economy, worth a remarkable 2,406 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 92,420 $$s, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

A widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat", new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, and naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wolfgang Luth's national animal is the swordfish, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Wolfgang Luth is ranked 201,686^th in the world and 1,127^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring zero on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.