The Private Financial Holdings of Warburg Banking Group is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Warburg with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, deadly medical pandemics, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.212 billion Germans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hamburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.2%.

The frighteningly efficient German economy, worth a remarkable 1,068 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 171,976 marks, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

The volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, Warburg believes shadows are part of the Illuminati, some of the country's most famous photographers are animals, and the government is said to have a martyrdom complex. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Warburg Banking Group's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Warburg Banking Group is ranked 65,844^th in the world and 38^th in Sovereign Corporate League for Most Developed, scoring 72.2 on the Human Development Index.