The Mountain Range of The Snow Shield is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by a tribal warlord with an even hand, and remarkable for its feral children, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 20.923 billion tribals enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mount Mendev. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Snow Shieldian economy, worth a remarkable 5,249 trillion stones a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 250,888 stones, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,462,060 per year while the poor average 20,304, a ratio of 72.0 to 1.

Garbage bags floating down the river are churned up by man-made rapids, even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love, sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, and war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Snow Shield's national animal is the narwhal, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Snow Shield is ranked 294,319^th in the world and 11,271^st in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 1.7 law-abiding acts per hour.