The United Kingdom of Berriel is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Álvaro III with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.827 billion Berrielians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dartinopla. The average income tax rate is 57.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Berrielian economy, worth 99.4 trillion Bariels 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 54,398 Bariels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, dictators have dubbed Berriel the land of lunatics, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, and religious turf wars have caused frustrated police to pray for divine intervention. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Berriel's national animal is the Shih Tzu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Berriel is ranked 263,344^th in the world and 465^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -6.13 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.