The Dazzling Swordplay of Flying Snow is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Snow with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.594 billion citizens of Zhou love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fenghao. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The graceful economy, worth 410 trillion planets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Soda Sales. Average income is 54,041 planets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather, there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow, the government takes agricultural advice from a wasp-themed superhero, and fat-shaming is now public policy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flying Snow's national animal is the simplebot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Caligraphy.

Flying Snow is ranked 280,383^rd in the world and 23^rd in Primitiveness for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -10.51 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.