The Protectorate of Brocklehurst is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Malcolm Tucker with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.835 billion Brookes enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eckington Thames. The average income tax rate is 29.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Brocklehurstian economy, worth 145 trillion crisps 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 Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 51,351 crisps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, Prime Minister Malcolm Tucker claims to be the epitome of family values, a new "thought police" branch is being developed, and it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brocklehurst's national animal is the badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brocklehurst is ranked 94,434^th in the world and 6^th in Lewisham for Most Stationary, with 218.6878114286 days.