The Holy Folk and Barmy Patriots of The Anti Bridge Society is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Gerald Hadley-Grymes with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, daily referendums, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 2.479 billion Locals are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Folded Arms Pub. The average income tax rate is 34.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Local economy, worth 490 trillion Chalks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 197,750 Chalks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Many marriages end in murder, graffiti graces every city's streets, pawn shop reality shows dominate basic cable, and the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. The Anti Bridge Society's national animal is the Lout Arch Back Hare, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is God fearing patriot.

The Anti Bridge Society is ranked 273,608^th in the world and 171^st in New United Kingdom for Safest, scoring 7.99 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.