The People's Republic of Franconia and Bavaria is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 723 million Franconians and Bavarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Munich. The average income tax rate is 80.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Franconian and Bavarian economy, worth 70.7 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Tourism. Average income is 97,799 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign leaders are advising that Leader's letters must have gotten lost in the mail, signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Franconia and Bavaria's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Franconia and Bavaria is ranked 22,884^th in the world and 406^th in 10000 Islands for Smartest Citizens, with 57.09 quips per hour.