The Empire of Uursus is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.864 billion Uursusians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and International Aid aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 39.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Uursusian economy, worth 203 trillion Rubles 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Retail. 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 impressive 108,985 Rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, blue bloods are welcome in Uursus, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, and the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Uursus's national animal is the Mockingbird, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Uursus is ranked 143,219^th in the world and 3^rd in Idaho for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,708.51 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.