The Democratic Republic of Bernland is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 268 million Bernlandians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 80.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Bernlandian economy, worth 6.36 trillion nones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 23,735 nones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, sushi is sold on the black market, in court almost every witness is a hostile witness, and men are enrolling into lady etiquette courses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bernland's national animal is the ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bernland is ranked 294,219^th in the world and 542^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Most Developed, scoring 50.43 on the Human Development Index.