The Holy Black Sky of Lord Windhelm is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Santa with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 16.288 billion Christmas are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Lord Windhelmian economy, worth a remarkable 1,954 trillion Gold Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,990 Gold Coins, with the richest citizens earning 5.8 times as much as the poorest.

The comic book series 'Santa and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, the digital money revolution has cashed out, a popular saying is "don't do the crime if you can't smash the lime(stone)", and the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lord Windhelm's national animal is the Cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Yodlism.

Lord Windhelm is ranked 58,103^rd in the world and 30^th in Disney World for Most Developed, scoring 75.04 on the Human Development Index.