The Holy Mountain Empire of Berggipfel is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Wernher Strüngmann III with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.231 billion Berggipfelers 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ehrfels. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Berggipfelian economy, worth 464 trillion Bergetalers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 143,744 Bergetalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organisations with 800 in their phone number are often raided by special forces, elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, and children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Berggipfel's national animal is the Brown Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Berggipfel is ranked 21,368^th in the world and 50^th in Christians for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,218.38 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.