The Republic of Werebears is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 45.05 billion Werebearsians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Werebears City. The average income tax rate is 59.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Werebearsian economy, worth a remarkable 6,739 trillion groats a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 149,602 groats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Drones are unable to lift the weight of their accompanying paperwork, school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles, and students are explicitly allowed to write answers on their forearms before exams. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Werebears's national animal is the Salmon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Werebears is ranked 286,129^th in the world and 6,985^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Primitive, scoring -475.98 on the Scary Big Number Scale.