The Statistical Anomaly of Brokemia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Markopsis Banfeld with an iron fist, and renowned for its vat-grown people, avant-garde cinema, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 17.127 billion Brokemians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Industry, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brokenstar. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Brokemian economy, worth a remarkable 5,126 trillion Waffles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 amazing 299,293 Waffles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes, popular political cartoonists are thrown in jail for inciting dissent, Brokemian watches list strained wrists as a common side effect, and top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brokemia's national animal is the Kitty, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Kittien.

Brokemia is ranked 292,910^th in the world and 11,247^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 8 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.