The Grand Duchy of The Hanoverian Rhineland is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Johan Santana with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.78 billion Rheinish are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rhein. The average income tax rate is 71.0%.

The powerhouse Rheinish economy, worth 188 trillion Rhinas a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 105,818 Rhinas, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

University graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth, the nation's WA representatives have received a very public sacking after The Hanoverian Rhineland allowed its WA membership to lapse, and most citizens in The Hanoverian Rhineland are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Hanoverian Rhineland's national animal is the Dual-Headed Shadow Pheonix, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Rheinish Catholicism.

The Hanoverian Rhineland is ranked 39,739^th in the world and 1^st in Grand Economic Cooperation Sphere for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.81 law-abiding acts per hour.