The Contents of My Briefcase is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The First Clerk with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 34.955 billion Contents have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Archives. The average income tax rate is 66.6%.

The thriving Briefcase economy, worth a remarkable 2,834 trillion pencils a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 81,100 pencils, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, and My Briefcase's famous countrysides are shrouded by wind farms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. My Briefcase's national animal is the common sense, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Bureaucracy.

My Briefcase is ranked 201,236^th in the world and 80^th in The TWR and NE Puppet Depot for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 325.95 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.