The Frostbound Realm of Icy Wind is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Serph Erudon with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.824 billion Icywindians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oleandria. The average income tax rate is 61.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Icywindian economy, worth 613 trillion gold pieces a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 160,482 gold pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Icy Wind's radio stations, the possibility of gain causes universal pain, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, and competing private ambulances racing to be the first to traffic accidents are a major cause of road accidents. Crime is totally unknown. Icy Wind's national animal is the steelhead trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Druidry.

Icy Wind is ranked 31,748^th in the world and 41^st in Spiritus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 52.44 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.