The United and Free States of Unterlander is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by The Senator with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 900 million Unterlanderians 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 relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stadt von Jesus Christus. The average income tax rate is 22.8%.

The strong Unterlanderian economy, worth 64.1 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 71,275 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

The Federal Council of Unterlander has been announced as the new Head of State, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Unterlander's national animal is the eagle, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Unterlander is ranked 112,813^th in the world and 5,076^th in The North Pacific for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 68.08 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.