The Glorious Yesterday of Bedford Central School is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its daily referendums, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 29.66 billion Bedford Central Schoolers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Welfare, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maxwell. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The very strong Bedford Central Schoolian economy, worth a remarkable 4,611 trillion chalks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,494 chalks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, Leader's speeches are beloved by insomniacs, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, and Leader's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies. Crime is totally unknown. Bedford Central School's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bedford Central School is ranked 2,373^rd in the world and 8^th in The Maritimes for Highest Economic Output, with 4,611 trillion Standard Monetary Units.