The State of Reykjanesbear is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 17.739 billion Reykjanesbearians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Reykjanesbearian economy, worth 72.1 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 4,063 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political activists are routinely executed, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, genetic researchers have been expelled, and Reykjanesbear has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Reykjanesbear's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Reykjanesbear is ranked 63,108^th in the world and 2^nd in Minnesota for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.18 law-abiding acts per hour.