The Größer-Deutsches Kaiserreich of Drachen is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Kaiser Friedrich IV with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, avowedly heterosexual populace, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.925 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, socially-minded, 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 Berlin. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient German economy, worth a remarkable 1,737 trillion Reichmarks a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 194,645 Reichmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black, the government is known to care more about its buildings than its people, other worlds are informed of limited-time sales millennia after they conclude, and foreign converts are illuminated by both missionaries and helicopter searchlights. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Drachen's national animal is the Imperial Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is German Lutheranism.

Drachen is ranked 294,414^th in the world and 205^th in Fifth Empire for Fattest Citizens, with 5.3 Obesity Rate.