The Infinite Ice Bear of Petronellania is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Ice Bear with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory vegetarianism, and enforced nudity. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 8.324 billion Nellans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Clark Aquilonia and Valeria. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Nellan economy, worth a remarkable 2,577 trillion Nellan Dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 309,661 Nellan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The most popular stadium acts are one-off performances, the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, prisons in Petronellania are the summer homes of murderers, and windows in Clark Aquilonia and Valeria don't have much of a view. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petronellania's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Petronellania is ranked 186,236^th in the world and 2,593^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,999.16 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.