The Kingdom of Bardopia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by King Bard the first of His name with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.942 billion Bardopians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bardopolis. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Bardopian economy, worth a remarkable 1,498 trillion Bardollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 150,770 Bardollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's all white elephants on parade, dictators have dubbed Bardopia the land of lunatics, the government airlifts sacrificial lambs, and school football matches are usually five-a-side. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bardopia's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Bardism.

Bardopia is ranked 4,086^th in the world and 174^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 95.82 on the Human Development Index.