The United Republic of Bering is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by High Director Seid Jahić with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 25.361 billion Berci hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crnograd. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Berski economy, worth a remarkable 3,800 trillion dinars 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 led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 149,855 dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, rumor has it that High Director Seid Jahić has won three lotteries in a row, the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers, and Berski novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about High Director Seid Jahić. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bering's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bering is ranked 8,030^th in the world and 8^th in Confederacy of Allied States for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 10,412.51 on the Gilded Widget Scale.