The Republic of Antarctica2 is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and lack of airports. The compassionate, devout population of 20.326 billion Antarctica2ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Antarctica2 City. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Antarctica2ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,764 trillion monies a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 135,984 monies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, citizens are now allowed to discuss whether The Leader is the greatest ruler ever or simply the greatest ruler of this generation, and quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Antarctica2's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Antarctica2 is ranked 5,147^th in the world and 252^nd in Balder for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,311.1 pounds of wildlife per square mile.