The Heyaath State of Bernskia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Chancellor Syuri Mashael with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 3.482 billion Hech are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thysas. The average income tax rate is 40.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Hech economy, worth 78.7 trillion Eörans 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, quite specialized black market in Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. 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 22,603 Eörans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left, politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, Bernskia is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, and you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bernskia's national animal is the Hech Peacock, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Secular.

Bernskia is ranked 136,588^th in the world and 7^th in Bernskian Sea for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 2,086.04 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.