The Republic of Brainwave is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.558 billion Brainwaveans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Smart City Place Thing. The average income tax rate is 58.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Brainwavean economy, worth a remarkable 1,048 trillion Energies that are Surreals 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 122,552 Energies that are Surreals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines, morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom, patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, and scientists who publish a non-reproducible result are tarred and feathered. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brainwave's national animal is the Brain Cows, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Brainwave is ranked 35,627^th in the world and 118^th in The Funian Puppet Region for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,424.03 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.