The Frostbound Realm of Icy Wind is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Serph Erudon with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, unlimited-speed roads, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 2.395 billion Icywindians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oleandria. The average income tax rate is 55.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Icywindian economy, worth 378 trillion gold pieces a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 158,037 gold pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists outnumber citizens two to one, government policies change at the drop of a rabbit, dictionary sales have hit an all-time high, and the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails. Crime is totally unknown. Icy Wind's national animal is the steelhead trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Druidry.

Icy Wind is ranked 16,940^th in the world and 17^th in Spiritus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 5,577.87 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.