The Republic of Brugan is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic population of 624 million Bruganians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Royster. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Bruganian economy, worth 59.5 trillion Euros a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,361 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows, dictators have dubbed Brugan the land of lunatics, the nation is currently revamping its entire education system, and the number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brugan's national animal is the Raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brugan is ranked 294,299^th in the world and 440^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.69 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.