The Disputed Territories of Bearchwon Hsuka is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 279 million Bearchwon Hsukans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 79.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Bearchwon Hsukan economy, worth 9.40 trillion rupees a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Uranium Mining. Average income is 33,691 rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Bearchwon Hsuka City for fear of causing a fuss, fair-weather fans talk during plays while die-hard theatre enthusiasts stay at home, teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs, and endocrinology is a rapidly growing field of study. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bearchwon Hsuka's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bearchwon Hsuka is ranked 43,295^th in the world and 71^st in Commonwealth of Liberty for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 51.96 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.