The Kingdom of The Ice Bears is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by King Thermo with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 35.763 billion Ice Bearsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Law & Order, although Industry, Healthcare, and Education are also considered important, while Environment and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Oksfjord. The average income tax rate is 4.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ice Bearsian economy, worth a remarkable 3,576 trillion Polar Crowns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,003 Polar Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Childhood friends of King Thermo are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense, children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary, annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals, and radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Ice Bears's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of Arctic.

The Ice Bears is ranked 8,186^th in the world and 9^th in Arctic for Largest Black Market, with 158 trillion Standard Monetary Units.