The Federal Republic of Great Schwanien is a huge, safe nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 492 million Great Schwanier are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nexara. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Great Schwanish economy, worth 39.9 trillion Schwani Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,097 Schwani Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Swan is one of the most popular forenames in Great Schwanien, international negotiations always lead to a lot of missile-laneous expenses, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, and the nation is relieved that all of the recent madness has finally come to an end. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Schwanien's national animal is the swan, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Great Schwanien is ranked 275,883^rd in the world and 1,292^nd in Europe for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.15 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.