The Great Congregation of Brethren is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Archdolphop Snow Warslayer with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 16.118 billion Brethren are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thriwich. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Brethren economy, worth a remarkable 2,247 trillion tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 139,432 tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sweat stains are proof of political acumen, all you have to do is pray to get into Brethren, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, and Brethren diplomacy is by the book. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brethren's national animal is the Brethren blue-striped dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Dolphinism.

Brethren is ranked 14,334^th in the world and 301^st in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 97 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.