The Federal Republic of Hamburg Neo is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Friedrich Kaiser with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.529 billion Hamburg Neoans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hamburg Neo. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Hamburg Neoan economy, worth a remarkable 2,505 trillion Euros a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 293,809 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, shopkeepers use microscopes to verify the authenticity of banknotes, centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels, and citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint. Crime is totally unknown. Hamburg Neo's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Hamburg Neo is ranked 1,382^nd in the world and 22^nd in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 158.55 law-abiding acts per hour.