The Republic of 33rd Ghillemearan Armored Brigade is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 154 million 33rd Ghillemearan Armored Brigadeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 63.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant 33rd Ghillemearan Armored Brigadean economy, worth 2.35 trillion 20mm shells 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 black market in Cheese Exports, Retail, Trout Farming, 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 15,276 20mm shells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 33rd Ghillemearan Armored Brigade's national animal is the AIFV-224, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

33rd Ghillemearan Armored Brigade is ranked 253,297^th in the world and 1^st in Region with the word tractor in it for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 747.9 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.