The Grand Duchy of Bertaeynn is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, avowedly heterosexual populace, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 630 million Bertaeynnians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avalon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.3%.

The powerhouse Bertaeynnian economy, worth 66.8 trillion Statères a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 106,039 Statères, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 361,021 per year while the poor average 22,948, a ratio of 15.7 to 1.

Eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance, small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, Bertaeynnians believe the only thing that will make you happy is being unhappy with who you are, and a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction. Crime is a serious problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Bertaeynn's national animal is the Boar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bertaeynn is ranked 219,128^th in the world and 8,670^th in Balder for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -3.13 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.