The Federal Republic of Burayan is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 451 million Burayanese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alcatakata. The average income tax rate is 61.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Burayanian economy, worth 33.0 trillion Burayanese Dollars 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 73,265 Burayanese Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, reddish-brown is the new black, and would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burayan's national animal is the Kiwi Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Burayan is ranked 16,634^th in the world and 397^th in The East Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 9,741.02 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.