The Fiefdom of Burlings is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by HSH Alexandre Pinheiro with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 15.078 billion Berlenguenses are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bairro Comandante Andrade e Silva. The average income tax rate is 49.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Berlenguense economy, worth a remarkable 2,456 trillion Gaivotan Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 162,902 Gaivotan Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government spares every expense for national defence, people who have lived their entire lives in Burlings are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, one does not simply walk into the tundra, and sick Berlenguenses are hair today and gone tomorrow. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burlings's national animal is the Gaivota, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of the Sea.

Burlings is ranked 54,315^th in the world and 18^th in Portugal for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,730.37 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.