One such goal is Stuttgart, the state capital and capital of hip-hop, a place of pilgrimage for rappers. That sounds good and is played out between the „Fantastische Vier“ and the group „Tiefschwarz,“ which just about indicates the state’s ideological range. At the 0711 Club, which is called after the telephone code for Stuttgart, the sons and daughters of bourgeois insurance representatives and engineers meet and are not in the slightest bit perturbed when the „Fantastische Vier“ declare that, „We are from the Mittelstand.“ In the Swabian and Baden idiom, that is as good as being rebellious – slightly subversive and economically very successful.

Martin Walser once claimed that if people everywhere could live like they can here, then the apocalypse hawkers would be out of business. He does not speak of the „Musterländle.“ Instead he just comments that anyone who doesn’t think we are great, is more or less a hopeless case.