The Republic of BrightFutures is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 25.573 billion BrightFuturesians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government prioritizes Education, although Healthcare, Law & Order, and Public Transport are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of BrightFutures City. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient BrightFuturesian economy, worth a remarkable 4,777 trillion Luminosities 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 186,817 Luminosities, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One does not simply walk into the tundra, welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, women across the country are tying the knot, and BrightFutures successfully hosted the The North Pacific Olympics. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BrightFutures's national animal is the Sun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

BrightFutures is ranked 131,006^th in the world and 6,552^nd in The North Pacific for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 25.29 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.