The Unitary State of Zimmerdachen is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Glorious Sun Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 15.298 billion Zimmerdens enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haben. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Zimmerdachian economy, worth a remarkable 4,703 trillion Rauns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an amazing 307,447 Rauns, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,074,995 per year while the poor average 63,902, a ratio of 16.8 to 1.

Female smokers cut their hair and don suits to get into male-only clubs, Glorious Sun Leader has killer fashion sense, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, and environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Zimmerdachen's national animal is the Frog, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Zimmerdachen is ranked 155,806^th in the world and 6,003^rd in Lazarus for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 612.54 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.