The Free Bears of Bears Armed is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chairbear of the High Council with a fair hand, and renowned for its public floggings, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 32.405 billion Bears hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The minute, liberal, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Council Groves. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Urrsish economy, worth an astonishing 11,126 trillion golden thalers a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 343,344 golden thalers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,165,978 per year while the poor average 74,590, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

Books are so highly regarded in Bears Armed that libraries are often revered as holy shrines, village elders are often called in to interpret voting outcomes in Parliament, seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, and there's a mortuary next to every Urrsish restaurant. Crime is totally unknown. Bears Armed's national animal is the goldilocks, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is One Plus Seven.

Bears Armed is ranked 3,408^th in the world and 1^st in International Democratic Union for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 8,111.65 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.