The Constitutional Monarchy of Bearical is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, sprawling nuclear power plants, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.38 billion Bearicalians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bearicalian economy, worth 679 trillion Berries a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,265 Berries, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, people can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler', election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, and truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bearical's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bearical is ranked 214,090^th in the world and 9,693^rd in The North Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -242.73 on the Hayek Index.