The Federation of Broken Coast is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 5 billion Broken Coastians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 23.1%.

The Broken Coastian economy, worth 219 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 43,910 Delta Eagles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Fruit market traders let their stock spoil rather than reduce their prices at the day's end, army rations are served on silver platters, children asking questions about science are referred to relevant sections in religious texts, and a National Academy regulates grammar and usage. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Broken Coast's national animal is the Kitsune, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Broken Coast is ranked 158,131^st in the world and 13^th in Fallout for Largest Black Market, with 1.01 trillion Standard Monetary Units.