The Republic of Braniewo is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Tomasz Sielicki with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 4.263 billion Braniewoans enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Braniewo. The average income tax rate is 27.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Braniewoan economy, worth 153 trillion złoties a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 36,103 złoties, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy, politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, popular websites like NationStates are blocked for "national security", and Tomasz Sielicki is called 'Patches' at international summits. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Braniewo's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Braniewo is ranked 124,603^rd in the world and 2^nd in Civicistan for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.25 law-abiding acts per hour.