The Bear of Bosco is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, pith helmet sales, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.884 billion Boscoans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Defense, although Administration, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 45.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Boscoan economy, worth 538 trillion Earth Kingdom Yuan 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. 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 60,543 Earth Kingdom Yuan, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments, children's TV shows are having a gay old time, and newspapers may not print any negative stories about the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bosco's national animal is the Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bosco is ranked 270,848^th in the world and 16^th in The City of Ba Sing Se for Least Corrupt Governments, with 90.56 percentage of bribes refused.