The Großes Heiliges Kaiserreich of The German Brotherhood is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Maximillian II of the Brotherhood with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.096 billion Germans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, 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 Deutschlandia. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient German Brotherhoodian economy, worth 343 trillion Imperial Paipersmarks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,899 Imperial Paipersmarks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 627,758 per year while the poor average 29,536, a ratio of 21.3 to 1.

Police pull people off the street for even mentioning the word plane, colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, skateparks can be found in every city, and the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The German Brotherhood's national animal is the Mystical Germanic Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Neo-Catholicism or Esoteric Catholicism.

The German Brotherhood is ranked 15,645^th in the world and 2^nd in Sacrum Axis Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,272.41 pounds of wildlife per square mile.