The Swinging Jungle of Baloo Kingdom is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by King Baloo von Bruinwald XIII with an even hand, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 2.393 billion Balooites have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baloo Kingdom City. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Balooite economy, worth 325 trillion Prickly Pears a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 136,208 Prickly Pears, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Increasing numbers of children in Baloo Kingdom have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers, farm turkeys are given high doses of antidepressants to take their minds off the holiday season, at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to King Baloo von Bruinwald XIII's wardrobe, and houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baloo Kingdom's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lutheran Christianity.

Baloo Kingdom is ranked 190,697^th in the world and 45^th in Callista for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.24 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.