The State of Bernadette Noble is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 13.337 billion Bernadette Nobleans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.8%.

The strong Bernadette Noblean economy, worth 787 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 59,018 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 205,003 per year while the poor average 12,391, a ratio of 16.5 to 1.

The police force is on a recruitment drive, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, and Bernadette Noble has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bernadette Noble's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bernadette Noble is ranked 243,970^th in the world and 484^th in United States of America for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.77 kickbacks per hour.