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“Our survival is your survival”

The Allied States of Bergenu is a massive, safe nation, ruled by President Vero with an even hand, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 3.821 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Social Welfare, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bergenu City. The average income tax rate is 76%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

All alcohol is banned, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bergenu's national animal is the Southern Pygmy Pig, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the berg.

Bergenu is ranked 71st in the region and 3,265th in the world for Highest Unemployment Rates.