The Watchfires of BRV-01 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 28.145 billion NAS are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 39.1%.

The thriving BRV-01ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,031 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 72,195 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat, getting an autograph has become harder than ever, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, and government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BRV-01's national animal is the Death's-head Hawkmoth, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

BRV-01 is ranked 77,904^th in the world and 1^st in Lourdes for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 3,643.97 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.