The Federal Republic of Brakanistan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Elizabeth Fraser with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.892 billion Brakanistanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Krasnov. The average income tax rate is 84.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Brakanistanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,233 trillion Brakanistani Mark - BM-s a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,699 Brakanistani Mark - BM-s, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes, international collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through Brakanistan, and the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brakanistan's national animal is the Black Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnostic.

Brakanistan is ranked 28,569^th in the world and 401^st in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 226.84 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.