The Glorious Yesterday of Bedford Central School is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 36.285 billion Bedford Central Schoolers 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Welfare, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maxwell. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The thriving Bedford Central Schoolian economy, worth a remarkable 5,934 trillion chalks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,563 chalks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hackers post hourly updates on international summits, the weather in Maxwell is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings', glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, and government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive. Crime is totally unknown. Bedford Central School's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bedford Central School is ranked 2,432^nd in the world and 7^th in The Maritimes for Safest, scoring 144.13 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.