The Resurging Empire of The Baden-Wurttemberg State is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Emperor Hans Fischer II with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.059 billion Badeneans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stuttgart. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Baden-Wurttemberg Statean economy, worth 876 trillion Marks a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 215,925 Marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 772,481 per year while the poor average 43,328, a ratio of 17.8 to 1.

Maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords, teenage girls worry that they'll be unpopular if their skirts aren't short enough, garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau', and fiscal policy hawks decry the sizable "panem et circenses" fund added to the public budget. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Baden-Wurttemberg State's national animal is the Dire Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

The Baden-Wurttemberg State is ranked 4,321^st in the world and 10^th in The Black Hawks for Lowest Crime Rates, with 120.09 law-abiding acts per hour.