The Democratic Republic of Bernland is a large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 105 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 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Bernlandian economy, worth 2.54 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 75,270^th in the world and 330^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 127.67 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.