The Unforgiving Cold of Arctic Lands is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Andrey Bunkernyy with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 2.073 billion Arctisans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moscow. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Arctisian economy, worth 371 trillion labor vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 179,405 labor vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament, people applying for famine relief must prove their gastrointestinal tracts are empty, and would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arctic Lands's national animal is the Double-headed Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Luxizism.

Arctic Lands is ranked 1,711^th in the world and 50^th in the Rejected Realms for Safest, scoring 151.4 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.