The State of Berners Bay is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 39.688 billion Berners Baisians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The thriving Berners Bayian economy, worth a remarkable 1,915 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Retail. Average income is 48,271 betales, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

The military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks", elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-betale mansions, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Berners Bay in an international press conference. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Berners Bay's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Berners Bay is ranked 233,691^st in the world and 1^st in Berners Bay for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.