Location: One big Island

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The Empire of BrightonBurg is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Kaiser Janos II with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 21.477 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, pro-business individuals devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greater Brightonburg City. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Automobile Manufacturing.

Children are regularly married to each other to secure business deals between families, BrightonBurg successfully hosted the One big Island Olympics, half of BrightonBurg's doctors can't speak the language, and suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. BrightonBurg's national animal is the Boar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Orange Catholic , and its currency is the Gold or Silver Krona.

BrightonBurg is ranked 35th in One big Island and 63,224th in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.287 Stalins.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and