The Republic of Brendon is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Bohan Depat with an even hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.797 billion Brendonians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chezre. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Brendonian economy, worth 231 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 128,701 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them, school history books often refer to Prime Minister Bohan Depat as "that imperialist pig dog", and frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brendon's national animal is the Owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Brendon is ranked 14,977^th in the world and 62^nd in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 9,254.76 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.