The Communal Union of The Ice States is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Courtney Hazelbush with an iron fist, and notable for its aversion to nipples, complete lack of prisons, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.618 billion Icers are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Southport City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ice economy, worth 248 trillion guineas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 153,730 guineas, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,406,189 per year while the poor average 1,819, a ratio of 772 to 1.

Ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals, teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty, the government violently suppresses separatist movements, and skyscrapers get built in just days. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The Ice States's national animal is the parrot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

The Ice States is ranked 260,724^th in the world and 163^rd in Greater Dienstad for Highest Drug Use, scoring 36.83 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.