The Sadistic Republic of Bright Angel is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Johann der Becker with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 35.451 billion Bright Angelians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Spirituality, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flagstaff. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Bright Angelian economy, worth an astonishing 44,826 trillion zuchs 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, 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 a breathtaking 1,264,454 zuchs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,211,004 per year while the poor average 202,005, a ratio of 25.8 to 1.

Bright Angelian watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, it takes a village to catch a criminal, it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors, and the act of reporting blasphemy is known as 'Orthodoxxing'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Bright Angel's national animal is the red bearded woodchuck, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Veni vidi vici.

Bright Angel is ranked 12^th in the world and 1^st in Macfora Forever for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 51,667.45 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.