The Grand Duchy of Bavarial is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, public floggings, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 766 million Bavarialians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nuremberg. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Bavarialian economy, worth 33.8 trillion francs 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, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming and Uranium Mining. 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 44,155 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bavarial is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", journalists giggle uncontrollably while reporting the nation's drug bonfires, and the military's newest toy broadcasts Bavarial's anthem on hostile frequencies to drive enemies insane. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bavarial's national animal is the duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Bavarial is ranked 273,934^th in the world and 816^th in Concord for Highest Food Quality, scoring 6.53 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.