The Sultanate of Berribe is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its closed borders, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 304 million Berribeans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 56.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Berribean economy, worth 2.15 trillion Leaxes 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 black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 7,056 Leaxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Berribeans caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, hotels often double as quarantine zones, and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Berribe's national animal is the Grizzly Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Berribe is ranked 235,452^nd in the world and 9,933^rd in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 162.19 on the Gilded Widget Scale.