The Federation of Germanischer Rat is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Davlos Ahren with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, complete lack of prisons, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.465 billion Westlichsteans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, 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 Hauptstadt. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Westlichstian economy, worth 335 trillion Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 136,260 Marks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,228,258 per year while the poor average 1,856, a ratio of 661 to 1.

Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Hauptstadt to enjoy their national art, whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls, reddish-brown is the new black, and adjacent suburbs build competing earthworks to force the other neighbourhood to flood first. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Germanischer Rat's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is None.

Germanischer Rat is ranked 24,183^rd in the world and 29^th in Aesica for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 280.75 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.