The Serene Democracy of Bear Connors Paradiso is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Dr Eamer with a fair hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, strictly enforced bedtime, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 17.531 billion Bears hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The minute, liberal, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Education, with Environment also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mark Barry Michael. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient a Bear economy, worth a remarkable 4,231 trillion euros 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 large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, 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 an amazing 241,366 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators, a shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's, a Bear husbands are dead good at fathering kids, and school kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Bear Connors Paradiso's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is agnostic.

Bear Connors Paradiso is ranked 162,189^th in the world and 6,658^th in the South Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -63.84 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.