The Fiefdom of Burlings is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by HSH Alexandre Pinheiro with an iron fist, and remarkable for its national health service, soft-spoken computers, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical population of 15.249 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. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Berlenguense economy, worth a remarkable 2,562 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 168,017 Gaivotan Pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 594,728 per year while the poor average 34,272, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

The nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat, fair-weather fans talk during plays while die-hard theatre enthusiasts stay at home, smart fridges sing the praises of Church of the Sea for fear of being iced, and citizens are overwhelmed by beautiful simulacra. 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 22,381^st in the world and 29^th in Portugal for Most Secular, with 42.49 Atheism Rate.