The Queen's State of Icewall is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 29.494 billion Icewallians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Icewallian economy, worth 960 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 32,566 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs, military spending is on the increase, genetic researchers have been expelled, and the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Icewall's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Icewall is ranked 96,575^th in the world and 1^st in Saint Helier for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,565.99 on the Gilded Widget Scale.