The Winter Kingdom of Snow Panther is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Hoarfrost Mouser with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 5.677 billion Snow Panthers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solitary Larch. The average income tax rate is 28.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Snowy economy, worth 244 trillion pantheras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,123 pantheras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, auditors are gutting every governmental department, and the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Snow Panther's national animal is the Ice Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hibernal Rites.

Snow Panther is ranked 138,970^th in the world and 3^rd in Thule for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,002.49 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.