The Republic of Panzer Vor 395 is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.972 billion Panzer Vor 395ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 62.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Panzer Vor 395ian economy, worth 66.6 trillion Dollars 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, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. 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 33,762 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, foreign leaders who don't applaud Leader's speeches are regarded as enemies of Panzer Vor 395, the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them, and Leader's former secretary was last sighted on her new yacht. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Panzer Vor 395's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Panzer Vor 395 is ranked 97,732^nd in the world and 1,899^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,494.85 on the Gilded Widget Scale.