The Holy Kingdom of Brandon is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Ard-Rí Brendan O'Allen with an even hand, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, ubiquitous missile silos, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 20.736 billion Brandonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Francis Xavier. The average income tax rate is 50.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Brandonish economy, worth a remarkable 5,944 trillion Shamrocks a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 286,687 Shamrocks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations, male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness', anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, and you can't spell society without CIS. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Brandon's national animal is the Corgi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Brandon is ranked 119,268^th in the world and 29^th in Middle Earth for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 648.9 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.