The Sergeant In Arms of Brisby is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ubiquitous missile silos, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 15.179 billion Brisbies are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.2%.

The powerhouse Brisbyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,258 trillion Valutoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 82,883 Valutoes, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

The lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results, escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', police are arresting costumed characters at comic book conventions, and urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brisby's national animal is the Wandering Stu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brisby is ranked 27,200^th in the world and 2^nd in The snowy peninsula for Most Beautiful Environments, with 873.4 pounds of wildlife per square mile.