The Confederacy of Brailt is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 183 million Brailtians 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 Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Brailtian economy, worth 5.15 trillion defs 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, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. 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 28,165 defs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, blind dates tend to result in bruised shins, cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, and school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brailt's national animal is the Komodo dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brailt is ranked 291,781^st in the world and 6^th in Restoros for Nicest Citizens, with 1.52 average smiles per day.