The Infinite Ice Bear of Petronellania is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Ice Bear with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 8.356 billion Nellans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Clark Aquilonia and Valeria. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Nellan economy, worth a remarkable 2,591 trillion Nellan Dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 310,184 Nellan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has hired out-of-work fashion designers to design purses for men, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, fire and brimstone sermons are accompanied by napalm and fragmentation bombs, and those awarding peace prizes to Nellans find themselves in pieces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petronellania's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Petronellania is ranked 265,641^st in the world and 3,893^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.