The Peoples Republic of Great German Union is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Großmarschall Talalaev with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.141 billion Germans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Volks-Hauptstadt Iserlohn. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient German economy, worth 876 trillion Union Marks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. 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 170,545 Union Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for, war criminals are given full state funerals, soldiers are equipped with multi-million Union Mark battlesuits, and statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great German Union's national animal is the Monke, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Großmarschall Doktrine.

Great German Union is ranked 21,766^th in the world and 12^th in Deutschland for Most Beautiful Environments, with 977.53 pounds of wildlife per square mile.