The Capital of Exilvania of Schreckensburg is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Dietrich Ekerhart Haegler with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 18.267 billion Schreckensburgians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Schreckensfeste. The average income tax rate is 87.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Schreckensburgian economy, worth 813 trillion ExMarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining. Average income is 44,526 ExMarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation, mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation, a major religion has been named as Schreckensburg's national religion, and Dietrich Ekerhart Haegler has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Schreckensburg's national animal is the Vampirfledermaus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Schreckensburg is ranked 280,043^rd in the world and 10,725^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -12.3 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.