The Federal Republic of Brazilian Armadillo is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 7.73 billion Brazilian Armadilloans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 62.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Brazilian Armadilloan economy, worth 849 trillion reais a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 109,909 reais, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Brazilian Armadillo, among slaves 'bastard' is an honorific rather than an insult, prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping, and the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brazilian Armadillo's national animal is the sabiá, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Brazilian Armadillo is ranked 33,009^th in the world and 91^st in Giovanniland for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,345.3 on the Gilded Widget Scale.