The Principality of Bienenhalde is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Prince Anselm with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 20.264 billion Bienenhalders are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Bienenhaldish economy, worth a remarkable 6,081 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 300,095 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Etiquette guides advise visitors to 'grovel gracefully', would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, and displaying impatience in any form lands you a spot on the BIA watchlist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bienenhalde's national animal is the honey bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Pietistic Lutheranism.

Bienenhalde is ranked 307,011^th in the world and 1^st in Vaporwave Paradise for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 13.89 on the Bus Surprisal Index.