The Christmas Joy of Bracadun is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Gavin Magnus with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.165 billion Bracadunians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Steelhorn. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bracadunian economy, worth a remarkable 2,588 trillion Candy Canes a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 419,936 Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold, and photographers have to apply for a license to photograph Gavin Magnus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Bracadun's national animal is the Elf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Violetism.

Bracadun is ranked 288,695^th in the world and 89^th in Thegye for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2.91 pounds of wildlife per square mile.