The Free City of Memmingen is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.759 billion Memmingers 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 medium-sized, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.2%.

The very strong Memmingenian economy, worth 164 trillion Ducats a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 59,557 Ducats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 186,187 per year while the poor average 14,617, a ratio of 12.7 to 1.

The diplomatic corps tends to open negotiations by insulting all the foreigners in the room, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and private businesses are paving paradises to put up parking lots. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Memmingen's national animal is the Dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Memmingen is ranked 133,064^th in the world and 29^th in Swabia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 534.51 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.