The City of Sigmaringen is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 25.232 billion Sigmaringenians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Spirituality, with Law & Order and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare receives no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.5%.

The very strong Sigmaringenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,001 trillion reichsmarks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is 39,684 reichsmarks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 121,229 per year while the poor average 10,069, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Voting is compulsory, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, and Sigmaringen has designated Sigmaringen City as its capital city. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Sigmaringen's national animal is the deer.

Sigmaringen is ranked 285,038^th in the world and 40^th in Cities for Largest Governments, scoring 8.25 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.