The Frozen Peasants of Polynyas is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Sir Ernest Shackleton with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 27.561 billion Polynyasians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scott. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Polynyasian economy, worth a remarkable 6,670 trillion Ices a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 242,018 Ices, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 887,990 per year while the poor average 46,691, a ratio of 19.0 to 1.

All tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs, citizens are spontaneously attracted to each other, soporific speeches from Sir Ernest Shackleton have left the opposition utterly knocked out, and the concrete jungle has become a large steel cage. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Polynyas's national animal is the Narwhal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Atheism.

Polynyas is ranked 140,335^th in the world and 6,164^th in Osiris for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 448.38 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.