The Empire of the BB of BrightonBurg is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Kaiser Janos II with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 45.316 billion BrightonBurgians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The minute, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greater Brightonburg City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient BrightonBurgian economy, worth an astonishing 23,711 trillion Silver Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is a breathtaking 523,257 Silver Coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,165,314 per year while the poor average 83,015, a ratio of 26.1 to 1.

It's best not to ask what goes into Greater Brightonburg City Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices, builders across BrightonBurg are blocked up with orders for new public loos, helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens, and weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. BrightonBurg's national animal is the Boar, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Holy Orange Catholic Church ⛪.

BrightonBurg is ranked 286,323^rd in the world and 57^th in One big Island for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -322.49 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.