The Community of Barren Tundra is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by MrTundra with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 32.283 billion Barren Tundrans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of TundraCity. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Barren Tundran economy, worth a remarkable 6,538 trillion shells 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Woodchip 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 an amazing 202,551 shells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, the nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets, protests are illegal, and games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Barren Tundra's national animal is the scorpion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Barren Tundra is ranked 281,087^th in the world and 223^rd in Nederland for Most Patriotic, with 0.5 flags saluted per person per day.