The Dictatorship of Fourth European Reich is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The Glorious Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.499 billion Fourth European Reichians 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 Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Reich City. The average income tax rate is 74.0%.

The thriving Fourth European Reichian economy, worth 242 trillion Reich Euros a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 96,922 Reich Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season, the government is suspected of mass disappearing dissidents both at home and abroad, students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, and The Glorious Leader has just been declared ruler of Fourth European Reich in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fourth European Reich's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholic.

Fourth European Reich is ranked 29,289^th in the world and 758^th in the West Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 67.87 on the Human Development Index.