The Deep Dark Nest of The Avian Brotherhood is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its deadly medical pandemics, enslaved workforce, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 36.32 billion Birds are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Birdland. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Avian economy, worth a remarkable 5,247 trillion pin feathers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,700 pin feathers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 587,732 per year while the poor average 14,989, a ratio of 39.2 to 1.

The dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market, to 'cut off family ties' is no longer just a phrase, the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners, and what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. The Avian Brotherhood's national animal is the vulture, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Roman Catholic.

The Avian Brotherhood is ranked 11,576^th in the world and 1^st in Vatican for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 11,181.78 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.