The Spiral Empire of Bycrest is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Bromious with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, avowedly heterosexual populace, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 25.734 billion Bycrestials 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tepplin. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Bycrestian economy, worth a remarkable 5,379 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 209,024 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours, NationStates staff are easily recognizable by their gold-plated mansions, prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, and old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones. 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. Bycrest's national animal is the Shadow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Bromism.

Bycrest is ranked 12,053^rd in the world and 4^th in Winterfell for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 10,462.96 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.