The Free Land of German Coasts is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 3.336 billion German Coastsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong German Coastsian economy, worth 212 trillion florins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,580 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Group photos of the members of parliament are often mistaken for family reunions, a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. German Coasts's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

German Coasts is ranked 39,241^st in the world and 2,591^st in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.02 law-abiding acts per hour.