The Ostalgie of DDR is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 22.811 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 2,927 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 267,963rd in the world and 9,635th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -227.04 on the Scary Big Number Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : DDR was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Economic Output and the Top 10% for Most World Assembly Endorsements, Most Inclusive, Most Beautiful Environments, and Most Advanced Public Education.
- : DDR was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Highest Food Quality, Most Valuable International Artwork, and Most Patriotic.
- : DDR's influence in Lazarus rose from "Hatchling" to "Newcomer".
- : DDR was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.
- : DDR's influence in Lazarus rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
- : DDR's influence in Lazarus rose from "Zero" to "Unproven".
- : DDR was refounded in Lazarus.
- : DDR ceased to exist in Balder.
- : DDR was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Mining Sector.
- : DDR's influence in Balder rose from "Unproven" to "Hatchling".
