The Jiving Jungle of Baloo Kingdom is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by King Baloo von Bruinwald XIII with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 7.993 billion Balooites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baloo Kingdom City. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Balooite economy, worth a remarkable 1,164 trillion Prickly Pears a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 145,651 Prickly Pears, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The recently bereaved have plenty of time to mourn during their incarcerations, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, and in a fit of passion King Baloo von Bruinwald XIII has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baloo Kingdom's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lutheran Christianity.

Baloo Kingdom is ranked 11,538^th in the world and 10^th in Callista for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,344.14 on the Gilded Widget Scale.