The Loaf of Bread County is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Bread God with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 2.202 billion Breads 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 large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Breadia. The average income tax rate is 42.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Fresh economy, worth 138 trillion Bread Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 62,734 Bread Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, anti-riot police are dispatched whenever two elderly ladies gather to complain that prices have increased, ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, and 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bread County's national animal is the Bread Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is breadity.

Bread County is ranked 30,460^th in the world and 22^nd in Iris for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 52.44 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.