The Imperial Reich of Tyskeland is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Kaiser Thomas II with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 2.237 billion Germans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. The average income tax rate is 57.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped German economy, worth 71.1 trillion Reichsmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 31,796 Reichsmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kaiser Thomas II has just been declared ruler of Tyskeland in an international press conference, Protestant Christianity has been named as Tyskeland's national religion, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, and vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyskeland's national animal is the Prussian Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Protestant Christianity.

Tyskeland is ranked 104,739^th in the world and 206^th in KAISERREICH for Most Patriotic, with 14.63 flags saluted per person per day.