The DHS Federal Agency of Ice is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by David Venturella with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, ubiquitous missile silos, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.402 billion citizens are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Washington DC. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Icean economy, worth a remarkable 4,361 trillion United States Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 265,928 United States Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

Teen parties are often ruined by wet blanket chaperones, it is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-United States Dollar mansions, and doctors recommend a daily intake of a cupful of coins. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ice's national animal is the Federal Agent, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Christianity.

Ice is ranked 35,043^rd in the world and 11^th in The Card Mine for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 229.89 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.