The Holy Kingdom of Brandon is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Ard-Rí Brendan O'Allen with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, infamous sell-swords, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 20.76 billion Brandonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Francis Xavier. The average income tax rate is 54.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Brandonish economy, worth a remarkable 6,056 trillion Shamrocks a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 291,760 Shamrocks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians can't accept birthday presents from their own children, the once prosperous capital is in utter decline, tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport, and hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Brandon's national animal is the Corgi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Brandon is ranked 18,246^th in the world and 25^th in Middle Earth for Largest Populations, with 20.8 billion capita.