The Communal Homesteads of Bjerke is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the Horse Whisperer with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.417 billion Bjerke-dwellers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Travbanen. The average income tax rate is 77.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Bjerkish economy, worth 136 trillion crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,947 crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like, polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, and drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bjerke's national animal is the horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Bjerke is ranked 226,604^th in the world and 160^th in Wintreath for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -6 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.