The Protectorate of Brocklehurst is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Malcolm Tucker with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and public floggings. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.145 billion Brookes enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eckington Thames. The average income tax rate is 31.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Brocklehurstian economy, worth 174 trillion crisps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 55,382 crisps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, and serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brocklehurst's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brocklehurst is ranked 33,473^rd in the world and 4^th in Lewisham for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,561.25 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.