The Nuclear Wasteland Crater of Brakograd is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.164 billion Brakograds love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bomb Shelter. The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Brakograd economy, worth 508 trillion Food Stamps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 160,687 Food Stamps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Brakograd's radio stations, lobotomised jaywalkers can barely ambulate let alone repeat their offences, and a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brakograd's national animal is the Earthworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brakograd is ranked 3,603^rd in the world and 120^th in The Communist Bloc for Nicest Citizens, with 54.36 average smiles per day.