The Duchy of Ducato di Bergamo is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Alessandro Duca di Bergamo with an even hand, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 1.606 billion Bergamasques are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bergamo. The average income tax rate is 85.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Bergamasque economy, worth 139 trillion Soldis a year, is highly specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 86,878 Soldis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Young schoolchildren pledge allegiance to One Nation Under Bum Indivisible By Poo, slavery has been abolished, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, and polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ducato di Bergamo's national animal is the Tasso, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Ducato di Bergamo is ranked 287,867^th in the world and 1,422^nd in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -18.49 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.