The Dictatorship of Die Riech is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Ludwig with an iron fist, and notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.371 billion Riechians 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order and Industry are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Die Riechian economy, worth a remarkable 3,702 trillion Riechmarks a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 276,937 Riechmarks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,118,337 per year while the poor average 45,773, a ratio of 24.4 to 1.

After every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow, government-funded marriage counseling is showing very limited success, farmers are struggling to keep up with demand for local produce, and grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Die Riech's national animal is the imperial eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Die Riech is ranked 3,145^th in the world and 1^st in Ridgefield for Lowest Crime Rates, with 129.11 law-abiding acts per hour.