The Unforgiving Cold of Arctic Lands is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Andrey Bunkernyy with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.09 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 375 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 179,780 labor vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arctisans are unrivalled in obstacle courses, not even good behaviour will get transgender inmates any special perks, sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself, and peace talks occasionally rack up a higher body count than the wars they seek to stop. 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 23,258^th in the world and 614^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,585.54 on the Gilded Widget Scale.