The Federal Republic of Biretrus Normardistan is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 594 million Biretrus Normardistanians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.3%.

The strong Biretrus Normardistanian economy, worth 34.3 trillion pesos a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 57,680 pesos, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 326,466 per year while the poor average 4,993, a ratio of 65.4 to 1.

Virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, many are asking why the latest naval vessel is named after Saint Bartholomeus the Many Handed, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, and government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Biretrus Normardistan's national animal is the kiwi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Biretrus Normardistan is ranked 146,252^nd in the world and 3,419^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 876.33 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.