The Most Serene Republic of Brussels Sprout is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Farmer Sprout with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, aversion to nipples, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.128 billion Brussels Sproutians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Farm. The average income tax rate is 95.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Brussels Sproutian economy, worth a remarkable 5,933 trillion Brussel Sprouts 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an amazing 256,561 Brussel Sprouts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government conducts negotiations with drawings after firing multilinguals for treason, citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', the government is reining in public spending, and the bourgeoisie are asked nicely to hand over the means of production. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brussels Sprout's national animal is the Worm, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Brussels Sprout is ranked 317,440^th in the world and 139^th in belgium for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -84.64 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.