The State of Bruunkaird is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 16.18 billion Bruunkairdians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Bruunkairdian economy, worth 72.8 trillion betales 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 Trout Farming 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 4,501 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military spending is on the increase, the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan, all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave, and town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bruunkaird's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bruunkaird is ranked 83,404^th in the world and 3^rd in Federal Republic of Russia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.04 law-abiding acts per hour.