The Principality of Bienenhalde is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Prince Anselm with an even hand, and remarkable for its digital currency, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 20.888 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 6,430 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 307,864 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, and people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight. 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.

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