The Star-Crowned Snow Forests of Christmastide is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Father Nicholas Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.202 billion Merrymakers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Christmas economy, worth a remarkable 1,560 trillion cheers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 152,920 cheers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor, the government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices, shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, and banks now use correct pronouns when evicting people from their houses. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Christmastide's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christmas Time.

Christmastide is ranked 12,027^th in the world and 6^th in Fjord for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.78 law-abiding acts per hour.