The City of Erfurt is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Andreas Bausewein with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 27.888 billion Erfurters are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Erfurt. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.1%.

The very strong Erfurter economy, worth a remarkable 1,491 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Average income is 53,484 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 163,382 per year while the poor average 13,570, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Andreas Bausewein has just been declared ruler of Erfurt in an international press conference, Lutheranism has been named as Erfurt's national religion, billions of marks are being poured into a space program, and Andreas Bausewein is too busy listening to praise to get any work done. Crime is moderate. Erfurt's national animal is the fish and its national religion is Lutheranism.

Erfurt is ranked 125,546^th in the world and 44^th in Cities for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.