The People's Republic of Deutschland-Ost is a very large, genial nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 190 million Deutschland-Ostians 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Deutschland-Ostian economy, worth 2.20 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture and Tourism. Average income is 11,576 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene, community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, they who do not work shall not eat, and battlefield gains are quickly lost when enemies don't respect a time-out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deutschland-Ost's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Deutschland-Ost is ranked 113,705^th in the world and 366^th in Europe for Most Primitive, scoring -23.11 on the Scary Big Number Scale.