The United Kingdom of Great Hanover is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by HM King Louis II with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 7 billion Great Hanoverians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amsterdon. The average income tax rate is 76.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Great Hanoverian economy, worth 718 trillion Hanoverian Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 102,636 Hanoverian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surgical tape has taken on a distinctly red color, punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, and heirs who take too long in the bathroom are declared missing and presumed dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Hanover's national animal is the Hanoverian Appaloosa, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Great Hanover is ranked 167,608^th in the world and 839^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 174.31 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.