The Golden Hillsides of Ben Bridge is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Kaiser Diamond with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, prohibition of alcohol, and smutty television. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 19.732 billion Bridgeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Diamond City. The average income tax rate is 50.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ben Bridgean economy, worth a remarkable 3,039 trillion Gold Coins a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 154,043 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts, the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning, pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. Crime is totally unknown. Ben Bridge's national animal is the Sapphire Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Goldism.

Ben Bridge is ranked 82,080^th in the world and 278^th in Carcassonne for Safest, scoring 89.35 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.