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The Great Congregation of Brethren

“In Sacred Peace”

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The Great Congregation of Brethren is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Archdolphop Snow Warslayer with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, lack of airports, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 11.363 billion Brethren are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thriwich. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Brethren economy, worth a remarkable 1,584 trillion tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 139,418 tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments, the World Great Congregation Games have been won again by Brethren as no other country cares enough to compete, students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, and sex changes are routinely performed at Brethren's hospitals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Brethren's national animal is the Seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Dolphinism.

Brethren is ranked 102,821^st in the world and 1,842^nd in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 84.03 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

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