The Confederation of The Union of the German State is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Friedrich IV with a fair hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 3.889 billion Germans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. The average income tax rate is 76.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse German economy, worth 282 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 72,675 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, bins outnumber trees in city parks, police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, and there's no representation without taxation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Union of the German State's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Protestantism.

The Union of the German State is ranked 37,482^nd in the world and 472^nd in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 187.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.