The Technocratic Imperium of New Ziedrich is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Ernst Ziedrich with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, parental licensing program, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 22.341 billion New Ziedrichers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Industry and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ziedrich. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient New Ziedrisch economy, worth a remarkable 7,931 trillion ISCS a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 355,033 ISCS, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,443,597 per year while the poor average 18,369, a ratio of 133 to 1.

The government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene, the smallest New Ziedrisch towns can be seen from space, APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps, and graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Ziedrich's national animal is the armored land squid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Ziedrich Nationalism.

New Ziedrich is ranked 332,786^th in the world and 1^st in Corporate Sector W29 for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -62.21 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.