The Federal Republic of Great Schwanien is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 518 million Great Schwanier are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nexara. The average income tax rate is 68.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Great Schwanish economy, worth 42.6 trillion Schwani Dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 82,284 Schwani Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular, police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, the government is engaging in an agricultural trade war with Maxtopia, and overweight people receive reparations checks from fast-food chains. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Schwanien's national animal is the swan, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Great Schwanien is ranked 227,310^th in the world and 1,064^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.29 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.