The People's Republic of Bekrut is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Hayrenik Greka with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 7.134 billion Bekrutians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Medvedak. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Bekrutian economy, worth a remarkable 1,003 trillion Otmeks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 140,702 Otmeks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and the government pours millions of Otmeks into rehabilitation programs annually. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bekrut's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dovanism.

Bekrut is ranked 4,086^th in the world and 96^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 121.55 law-abiding acts per hour.