The Democratic People's Republic of Franconia and Bavaria is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Grand Marshal Timoshenko with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 4.772 billion Francovarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Munich. The average income tax rate is 88.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Francovarian economy, worth 555 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 116,452 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists ask to stay in the same pleasant accommodations where foreign prisoners are kept, the government hopes that Federation janitors overhear all of the good gossip, military advisors frequently remind San Vitenzan farmers that they have to pull the pin on a grenade before throwing it, and ordinary soldiers trade rumors about the top secret "Death From Above" project. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Franconia and Bavaria's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Franconia and Bavaria is ranked 51,740^th in the world and 346^th in 10000 Islands for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 51.48 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.