The Unforgiving Cold of Arctic Lands is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Andrey Bunkernyy with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 2.079 billion Arctisans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moscow. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Arctisian economy, worth 373 trillion labor vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 179,492 labor vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, and the Arctisian Intelligence Agency has put 'Project Quantum Refrigerator' on hold indefinitely. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arctic Lands's national animal is the Double-headed Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Luxizism.

Arctic Lands is ranked 115,628^th in the world and 3,059^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Corrupt Governments, with 8.56 kickbacks per hour.