The Armed Fortress State of Bretton is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Chancellor Donner with an even hand, and notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, sprawling nuclear power plants, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 46.1 billion Brettonians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt government is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brettonia. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Brettonian economy, worth an astonishing 24,214 trillion jions a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is a breathtaking 525,256 jions, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,348,965 per year while the poor average 12,891, a ratio of 337 to 1.

The nobility are anxious about the government's new "three executions and you're out" policy, Chancellor Donner's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, pieces of iron pyrite are believed to be worth their weight in gold, and conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Bretton's national animal is the golden eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is atheism.

Bretton is ranked 7,379^th in the world and 2^nd in Haven for Lowest Crime Rates, with 107.44 law-abiding acts per hour.