The Holy Mountain Empire of Berggipfel is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Wernher Strüngmann III with an iron fist, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.194 billion Berggipfelers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ehrfels. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Berggipfelian economy, worth 455 trillion Bergetalers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 142,641 Bergetalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has granted that two plus two makes four, health insurance executives die young due to their claims being denied by their own companies, telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm, and refugees from other nations are flocking to Berggipfel's border. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Berggipfel's national animal is the Brown Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Berggipfel is ranked 13,534^th in the world and 39^th in Christians for Most Developed, scoring 88.87 on the Human Development Index.