The Kingdom of BeringFires is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 445 million BeringFiresians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oa. The average income tax rate is 46.8%.

The very strong BeringFiresian economy, worth 30.6 trillion Fires a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 68,790 Fires, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze, museum visitors often bring lemons and black lights, every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains, and it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BeringFires's national animal is the Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

BeringFires is ranked 85,437^th in the world and 39^th in Lone Wolves United for Most Developed, scoring 65.72 on the Human Development Index.