The Sleepy Ice Bear of Petronellania is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory military service, and national health service. The compassionate, devout population of 3.374 billion Nellans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Nellan economy, worth 544 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 161,343 Candy Cane Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Yggdrassil Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District, robosexual marriages are increasingly common, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, and children's TV shows are having a gay old time. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petronellania's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Athyism.

Petronellania is ranked 15,216^th in the world and 345^th in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 5,691.49 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.