The BB Puppet of Upper Brightonburg is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 27.995 billion Upper Brightonburgians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Upper Brightonburg City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.3%.

The powerhouse Upper Brightonburgian economy, worth a remarkable 2,027 trillion Gold Pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 72,411 Gold Pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 208,088 per year while the poor average 20,030, a ratio of 10.4 to 1.

The nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle, citizens who don't attend the nation's massive military parades tend to disappear overnight, most people suffer from some form of hearing loss, and officer recruitment and police brutality have reached an all-time high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Upper Brightonburg's national animal is the Double Headed Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Upper Brightonburg is ranked 146,776^th in the world and 6^th in Supernovaland for Largest Black Market, with 1.20 trillion Standard Monetary Units.