The Extremely Holy Empire of Bread by Bread is a massive, genial nation, ruled by ITALIAN SANDWICH with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 1.374 billion bread are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ITAILAIN SANDWICH. The average income tax rate is 49.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient a loaf economy, worth 54.9 trillion bread crumbs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Pizza Delivery, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 39,974 bread crumbs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten, the Federal Council of Bread by Bread has been announced as the new Head of State, extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Bread by Bread is often a lifetime appointment, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bread by Bread's national animal is the sandwich, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is BREAD.

Bread by Bread is ranked 249,346^th in the world and 381^st in Edoca for Most Cultured, scoring 63 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.