The Winter Fylkirate of Plugo is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Santa with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, flagrant waste-dumping, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 14.417 billion Workers are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The minute, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Industry, with Defense and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Plugoan economy, worth a remarkable 4,922 trillion Candy Canes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 341,425 Candy Canes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,175,872 per year while the poor average 3,352, a ratio of 947 to 1.

Immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, popular sunny beaches always have a cloudy outlook, politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, and colonial subjects have Plugoan culture shoved down their throats. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Plugo's national animal is the Reindeer, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ásatrú.

Plugo is ranked 294,212^th in the world and 7^th in Danheim for Lowest Crime Rates, with 2.01 law-abiding acts per hour.