The Antarctica Founders of Joop is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Joop Polarbear with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 49.643 billion Joopians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Industry, although Law & Order, Education, and Defense are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Icetown. The average income tax rate is 61.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Joopian economy, worth an astonishing 10,276 trillion Polar Crowns a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 207,007 Polar Crowns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Snowball fights inaugurate summer breaks, the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, the face of Joop Polarbear is a permanent feature of the Icetown skyline, and state-run museums boast about their anti-Joopian art collections. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Joop's national animal is the Polar Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Joop is ranked 193,131^st in the world and 18^th in Antarctica for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 31.29 on the Bus Surprisal Index.