The Northern Christmas Winter of Tyopio is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, zero percent divorce rate, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.468 billion Tyopians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tyopian economy, worth 337 trillion Candy Canes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 136,657 Candy Canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, the new Reindeer Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls, leading ethologists are being investigated for illegal electoral interference, and Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tyopio's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Tyopio is ranked 159,300^th in the world and 2,559^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,514.92 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.