The Union of Scandinavia (Danish: Den Skandinaviske Union) is the northernmost country in Europe, occupying all of Scandinavia, Northern Germany, and parts of North America and West Africa. Scandinavia is a unitary constitutional, hereditary monarchy and a parliamentary, representative democracy; it is currently ruled by Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Helle Throning-Schmidt. It is regarded as one of the most powerful nations in the whole world, even having been classified as one of the superpowers.