The Confederacy of The Svalbard Islands is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Governor Njord with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 9.562 billion Svalbardians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Longyearbyen. The average income tax rate is 8.8%.

The thriving Svalbard Islandsian economy, worth 478 trillion Ethereums a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 50,066 Ethereums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, for some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate, political speeches that drill deep into bureaucratic fine detail could be said to be a little boring, and social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Svalbard Islands's national animal is the kraken, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

The Svalbard Islands is ranked 253,988^th in the world and 4^th in Auralia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 49.8 law-abiding acts per hour.