The Communal Homesteads of Bjerke is a huge, genial nation, ruled by the Horse Whisperer with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 933 million Bjerke-dwellers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Travbanen. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Bjerkish economy, worth 84.2 trillion crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,228 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips, when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, and workers for the environmental protection agency are patted down for tartar sauce every morning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bjerke's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bjerke is ranked 22,415^th in the world and 62^nd in Wintreath for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,119.45 on the Clooney Contribution Index.