The Protectoral Zone of Autonomous Trans-Antarctica is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by High Senate with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, unlimited-speed roads, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.325 billion Antarcticans 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 government is primarily concerned with Education, with Industry, Administration, and Defense also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Basisstadt. The average income tax rate is 88.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Antarctican economy, worth a remarkable 1,814 trillion IDCS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 419,484 IDCS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards, religious people are committed to mental institutions for treatment, and transgender and agender are on the education agenda. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Autonomous Trans-Antarctica's national animal is the Orca, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Atheism.

Autonomous Trans-Antarctica is ranked 774^th in the world and 16^th in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 15,834.41 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.