The Principality of Brister is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 31.351 billion Bristerians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The large, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brister City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.2%.

The very strong Bristerian economy, worth a remarkable 1,595 trillion brister dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is 50,879 brister dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 177,283 per year while the poor average 10,631, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

Toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense, motorway service stations often have a higher population than the hinterland villages that the roads lead to, the WhoTube comments section has gone strangely quiet, and a major religion has been named as Brister's national religion. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Brister's national animal is the cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Brister is ranked 242,014^th in the world and 3,634^th in The North Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 48.52 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.