The Constitutional Monarchy of Osterreich-Deutschland is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, ubiquitous missile silos, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, cynical population of 333 million Osterreich-Deutschlandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin and Vienna. The average income tax rate is 52.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Osterreich-Deutschlandian economy, worth 26.8 trillion Reichsmarkes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,605 Reichsmarkes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, and the "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Osterreich-Deutschland's national animal is the Reichs Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Osterreich-Deutschland is ranked 38,880^th in the world and 484^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 181.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.