The Ostalgie of DDR is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, avowedly heterosexual populace, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 22.754 billion DDRians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 81.9%.

The frighteningly efficient DDRian economy, worth a remarkable 2,920 trillion Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 128,344 Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism, DDR has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster, and the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. DDR's national animal is the Trabi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

DDR is ranked 8,926^th in the world and 572^nd in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 103.21 law-abiding acts per hour.