The Empire of Deustche is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The quiet, industrious population of 254 million Deustcheans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.6%.

The Deustchean economy, worth 15.4 trillion German Papiermarks 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, 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 60,801 German Papiermarks, with the richest citizens earning 8.1 times as much as the poorest.

Voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Deustche, the state auctions off combat drones to fund war reparations, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Deustche City. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deustche's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Deustche is ranked 252,251^st in the world and 1,703^rd in the West Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 27,603.85 Standard Monetary Units.