The Democratic Republic of Bernland is a mid-sized, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 93 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, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Bernlandian economy, worth 2.24 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 24,117 nones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, high school bands practice by moonlight, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, and a town hall is called each time a kid asks how far away the sun is. 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 300,140^th in the world and 593^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Average Incomes, with 24,117.09 Standard Monetary Units.