The Republic of Brotherland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Joan Ragno with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, complete lack of prisons, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.782 billion Brotherlandians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brotherland City. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Brotherlandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,465 trillion Songs a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 156,222 Songs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Air Brotherland is rumored to receive more government funding than the Brotherlandian Air Force, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, astronauts take one small step for Brotherland and one giant step backward from confrontation, and boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers'. Crime is totally unknown. Brotherland's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Fratracism.

Brotherland is ranked 2,475^th in the world and 77^th in The East Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 97.11 on the Human Development Index.