The Hanseatic City of Bremen is a titanic, pleasant nation, remarkable for its suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 20.178 billion Bremeners have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bremen. The average income tax rate is 15.2%.

The large but inefficient Bremener economy, worth 699 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Average income is 34,686 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, Little League matches are often attended by riot police with water cannon... just in case, and sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers. Crime is moderate. Bremen's national animal is the porpoise, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Bremen is ranked 296,154^th in the world and 176^th in Grant for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -7.37 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.