The Community of Icebreaker Ships is a gargantuan, pleasant nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 39.79 billion Icebreaker Shipsians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt individuals is primarily concerned with Administration, with Environment, Education, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Welfare receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sikuliaq. Income tax is unheard of.

The Icebreaker Shipsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,159 trillion burgs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Soda Sales industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing and Trout Farming. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,128 burgs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 90,496 per year while the poor average 7,213, a ratio of 12.5 to 1.

Burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime, postcards from Icebreaker Shipsian driving test centres are popular souvenirs, the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents, and couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Icebreaker Ships's national animal is the ice, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Sea of Faith.

Icebreaker Ships is ranked 71,316^th in the world and 10^th in Wyndia for Most Corrupt Governments, with 24.88 kickbacks per hour.