The Free Bears of Bears Armed is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by ChairBear of the High Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, lack of airports, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 37.175 billion Bears hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government 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 13,692 trillion golden thalers a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 368,319 golden thalers, with the richest citizens earning 8.7 times as much as the poorest.

Road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau', songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti, and nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers. 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 8,937^th in the world and 6^th in International Democratic Union for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 6,151.48 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.