The Commonwealth of High Brantum is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, otherworldly petting zoo, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 417 million Brantomites 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zarasgara. The average income tax rate is 58.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Brantonian economy, worth 33.6 trillion Gauts a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,460 Gauts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Vast amounts of energy are expended moving water to hilltop lakes, a passport is literally priceless, textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, and evasive politicians don't fail to strongly commit to not committing to a course of non-inaction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. High Brantum's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

High Brantum is ranked 74,636^th in the world and 604^th in the West Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 68.95 on the Human Development Index.