The Endless Reign of Stiechtenlien is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Thy Glorious Conqueror with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, prohibition of alcohol, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.092 billion Stiechtenlienians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karlstadt. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Stiechtenlienian economy, worth a remarkable 3,622 trillion Food Scraps 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 398,454 Food Scraps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police, the lasting legacy of the current generation is a million years of buried radioactivity, government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, and Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stiechtenlien's national animal is the Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Holy Worship of Carolus.

Stiechtenlien is ranked 17,592^nd in the world and 9^th in Psychotic Dictatorships for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 8,602.08 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.