The Federation of Winterthrone is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 27.314 billion Winterthroneans 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 Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 40.6%.

The large but underdeveloped Winterthronean economy, worth 642 trillion nones a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 23,513 nones, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

Winterthrone successfully hosted the Balder Olympics, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, and Winterthrone has designated Winterthrone City as its capital city. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Winterthrone's national animal is the none, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Winterthrone is ranked 296,488^th in the world and 11,613^th in Balder for Most Developed, scoring 45.85 on the Human Development Index.