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The Unforgiving Cold of Arctic Lands is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Andrey Bunkernyy with an even hand, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 3.324 billion Arctisans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moscow. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Arctisian economy, worth 720 trillion labor vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 216,892 labor vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, tourists on boat cruises can't figure out why they smell so fishy afterward, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, and the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arctic Lands's national animal is the Double-headed Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is not the way to go.

Arctic Lands is ranked 290,072^nd in the world and 5,758^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -7.62 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.