The Democratic Republic of Bernland is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 82 million Bernlandians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Bernlandian economy, worth 1.57 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 quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 19,116 nones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Luck is off the table, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene, and stolen Reuben sandwiches are met with detailed and thorough police investigations. 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 238,363^rd in the world and 432^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.18 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.