The Grand Duchy of Schneeberg is a very large, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 196 million Schneebergians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.1%.

The strong Schneebergian economy, worth 13.2 trillion Schneebergischmarks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 67,386 Schneebergischmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 198,014 per year while the poor average 18,066, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, all footpaths have tollbooths, mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of Hares and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, and the Schneeberg Mental Asylum Party have recently won seats in parliament. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Schneeberg's national animal is the Hare, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Schneeberg is ranked 120,418^th in the world and 468^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 884.62 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.