The Republic of BrightFutures is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 31.394 billion BrightFuturesians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Law & Order, and Public Transport also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of BrightFutures City. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient BrightFuturesian economy, worth a remarkable 5,962 trillion Luminosities a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 189,918 Luminosities, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, and re-education centers are being added to most prisons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BrightFutures's national animal is the Sun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

BrightFutures is ranked 242,956^th in the world and 9,292^nd in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -665.24 on the Scary Big Number Scale.