The Republic of Antarctic Fallout Shelter is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Commander Dwight Towers of USS Sawfish with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 7.179 billion Antarctic Fallout Shelterians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lake Vanda. The average income tax rate is 42.8%.

The powerhouse Antarctic Fallout Shelterian economy, worth 474 trillion Melted Slags a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Average income is 66,081 Melted Slags, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Charity fundraisers often resemble minstrel shows, atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum, even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love, and the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Antarctic Fallout Shelter's national animal is the Cockroach, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Cacotopianism.

Antarctic Fallout Shelter is ranked 58,564^th in the world and 14^th in Hurricane 12 for Most Cultured, scoring 70 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.