Population | 37.817 billion |
Capital | Council Groves |
Leader | ChairBear of the High Council |
Faith | One Plus Seven |
Currency | golden thaler |
Animal | goldilocks |
The Free Bears of Bears Armed is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by ChairBear of the High Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, unlimited-speed roads, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 37.817 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 14,092 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 372,658 golden thalers, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.
City budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty, restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Bears Armed, the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Goldilocks Dung" has been declared a national treasure, and the nation was recently voted as the most stylish in International Democratic Union. 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 4th in the world and 1st in International Democratic Union for Most Cultured, scoring 1,759 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, the nation was recently voted as the most stylish in International Democratic Union.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Goldilocks Dung" has been declared a national treasure.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Bears Armed.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, visitors to Violet Rock City are stunned to learn that they must memorize the "99 Principles" before entering.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, news headlines suggest that ChairBear of the High Council has a sideline in guinea pig pimping.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, the annual budget is heralded by the Treasury Minister donning a fake plastic mustache and giant star-shaped glasses.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, Bears believe manners maketh the leader.
- : Following new legislation in Bears Armed, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes.