The Communal Homesteads of Bjerke is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by the Horse Whisperer with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.196 billion Bjerke-dwellers 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Travbanen. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Bjerkish economy, worth 113 trillion crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 94,874 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pinkie promises are a matter of life and death, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, clairvoyants and soothsayers find fellowship at their local McRonalds, and being the Horse Whisperer has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bjerke's national animal is the horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Bjerke is ranked 14,725^th in the world and 38^th in Wintreath for Most Cultured, scoring 98 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.