The Voodoo People's Republic of Bruuma is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Brother Unclepear with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 24.22 billion Bruumans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bayougrad. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Bruuman economy, worth a remarkable 2,998 trillion Rubledolls 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. 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 impressive 123,809 Rubledolls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal, the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market, and sending sick politicians "Get Well Soon" cards is considered bribery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bruuma's national animal is the Rainbow Serpent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Unclepearan Marxist Voodoo.

Bruuma is ranked 1,131^st in the world and 24^th in the South Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 454.21 kickbacks per hour.