The Glorious Yesterday of Bedford Central School is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 41.353 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, liberal, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Welfare, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maxwell. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The powerhouse Bedford Central Schoolian economy, worth a remarkable 7,048 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 170,446 chalks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, and a life spent suffering in silence is considered noble. 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 208,929^th in the world and 16^th in The Maritimes for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 158.99 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.