The Christmas Winter Wonderland of Isla Vida is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 539 million Isla Vidans are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Isla Vidani economy, worth 42.5 trillion Candy Canes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 78,901 Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The public are free to vote for whomever the government wants in office, the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers, diplomacy is a foreign concept to Isla Vidans, and visiting dignitaries often end up cuddling in the hot tub with Leader. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Isla Vida's national animal is the Reindeer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Isla Vida is ranked 282,376^th in the world and 2^nd in Mar Soleado for Most Primitive, scoring -197.05 on the Scary Big Number Scale.