The Socialist Federal Republic of Brauengen is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, sprawling nuclear power plants, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 5.388 billion Brauengenians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roterbarg. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The all-consuming Brauengenian economy, worth 556 trillion Brauengen Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 103,208 Brauengen Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's reputation is hard as nails, blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, and bad punctuation has come to a full stop. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brauengen's national animal is the Brauengen Red Wren, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None Official.

Brauengen is ranked 8,300^th in the world and 244^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 12,180.13 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.