The Disputed Territories of Snow 12 is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, feral children, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.399 billion Snow 12ians 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 39.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Snow 12ian economy, worth 249 trillion moons 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 a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese 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 56,778 moons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mass shootings have become the new normal, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, all footpaths have tollbooths, and government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Snow 12's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Snow 12 is ranked 122,240^th in the world and 6,022^nd in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.49 law-abiding acts per hour.