The SoP veteran of New South Arctica is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Mary Jane Militia with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 35.693 billion Arctichawkians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass — prioritizes Education, with Environment, Healthcare, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tramiar City. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The enormous but inefficient Arctichawkian economy, worth a remarkable 3,734 trillion ice cubes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 104,635 ice cubes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, only lightning has a chance of striking Mary Jane Militia twice, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New South Arctica's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is PuffPuffPass.

New South Arctica is ranked 2,963^rd in the world and 3^rd in The Black Hawks for Nicest Citizens, with 61.16 average smiles per day.