Burgermeister Zuken is the nominal Big Pierogi of Mechanicsburg. According to Carson von Mekkhan (the real power in town), when Baron Klaus Wulfenbach stepped into the chaos that resulted from the attack on Castle Heterodyne — and the subsequent disappearance of the Heterodyne Boys — he wanted some governing body he could work with, rather than the anarchy that appeared to prevail in the town.(Little did he know.)