In the novel, the rest of Western and Northern Europe, excluding Switzerland and Vatican City, has been corralled by Germany into a European Community, which is made up of Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. The map provided shows Andorra was annexed by Spain and San Marino by Italy, and Liechtenstein was absorbed directly into Nazi Germany, similar to Austria. Slovakia's fate is never mentioned in the book but the map suggests that it has been absorbed by Germany and Hungary. Eastern Europe is dominated by Germany and includes Croatia, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia. The European Community, despite having nominally-free nations under their own governments and leaders, are presumably only barely able to police their own territory, and they are under constant watch by Berlin and are subordinate to Germany in all but name. The German flag over the headquarters is twice as large as those of the other nations.