The Golden Hillsides of Ben Bridge is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Kaiser Diamond with an even hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 19.713 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 50.7%, 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 154,170 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes, bins outnumber trees in city parks, the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts, and the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning. 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 82,459^th in the world and 280^th in Carcassonne for Safest, scoring 89.34 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.