The Glorious Yesterday of Bedford Central School is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, enforced nudity, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 41.299 billion Bedford Central Schoolers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Welfare, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Maxwell. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The powerhouse Bedford Central Schoolian economy, worth a remarkable 7,039 trillion chalks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 170,446 chalks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, and a life spent suffering in silence is considered noble. Crime is totally unknown. Bedford Central School's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bedford Central School is ranked 1,872^nd in the world and 5^th in The Maritimes for Most Cultured, scoring 273 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.