The Afterwit of Treppenwitz is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.127 billion Treppenwitzer love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 88.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Treppenwitzer economy, worth 187 trillion Courjitziens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Basket Weaving. Average income is 88,300 Courjitziens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Economic planning is exalted as a human art form, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, and the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Treppenwitz's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Treppenwitz is ranked 3,844^th in the world and 18^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Safest, scoring 132.76 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.