The United Kingdom of The Teddy is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Teddy the Great with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, pith helmet sales, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 22.424 billion Teddians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bearia. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The powerhouse Teddyian economy, worth a remarkable 3,143 trillion Ted Rings a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 140,183 Ted Rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend, the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award, and teen parties are often ruined by wet blanket chaperones. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Teddy's national animal is the Great Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Great Grand Church of the Teddy.

The Teddy is ranked 3,701^st in the world and 182^nd in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 124.24 law-abiding acts per hour.