The Empire of Maua Germania is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Kaiser Willhard II of Maua with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, barren, inhospitable landscape, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.068 billion Maua 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 Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaiserstadt. The average income tax rate is 57.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Maua Germanian economy, worth 269 trillion Marks a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,949 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kaiser Willhard II of Maua's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, biological warfare is used to solve small disagreements, and government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maua Germania's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is The Verdant Flame.

Maua Germania is ranked 49,135^th in the world and 1^st in Evrasia for Most Cultured, scoring 72 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.