The Republic of Brotherland is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Joan Ragno with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.955 billion Brotherlandians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brotherland City. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Brotherlandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,494 trillion Songs a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 156,342 Songs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Air Brotherland is rumored to receive more government funding than the Brotherlandian Air Force, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, astronauts take one small step for Brotherland and one giant step backward from confrontation, and boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers'. Crime is totally unknown. Brotherland's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Fratracism.

Brotherland is ranked 194,245^th in the world and 7,751^st in The East Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -303.06 on the Scary Big Number Scale.