The Republic of Brugan is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 590 million Bruganians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Royster. The average income tax rate is 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Bruganian economy, worth 55.6 trillion Euros a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 94,163 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", and grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brugan's national animal is the Raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brugan is ranked 55,969^th in the world and 156^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 4,956.61 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.