The Democratic Republic of Bernland is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 227 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 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Bernlandian economy, worth 5.50 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 24,224 nones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

High school bands practice by moonlight, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, a town hall is called each time a kid asks how far away the sun is, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Bernland City. 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 28,103^rd in the world and 63^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Drug Use, scoring 362.63 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.