The Empire of Greater germanic union is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Kaiser hans ricktobren II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.668 billion germans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of korps. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Greater germanic unionian economy, worth 340 trillion euros 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an impressive 127,529 euros, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 404,985 per year while the poor average 30,595, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

A faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines, it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander, and the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater germanic union's national animal is the black eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Greater germanic union is ranked 281,591^st in the world and 1,428^th in Europe for Nicest Citizens, with 0.35 average smiles per day.