The Boreal Valley of Antarc is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Temmie with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.277 billion Antarcians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arctowski. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Antarctic economy, worth a remarkable 1,533 trillion Rous a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 107,380 Rous, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Chess players with pacemakers and cochlear implants are treated with suspicion, the thrash metal version of the national anthem is topping charts, worship days have replaced sick days, and death is nobody's business. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Antarc's national animal is the Ermine, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Antarc is ranked 8,914^th in the world and 5^th in Arctic for Smartest Citizens, with 99.82 quips per hour.