The Constitutional Republic of Snow And Ice Caps is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by President Austin Schneider with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, rampant corporate plagiarism, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 5.462 billion Icishmen live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SnowPort. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Icish economy, worth 957 trillion Frozes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 175,269 Frozes, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 933,559 per year while the poor average 17,323, a ratio of 53.9 to 1.

Parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children, the government thinks Icishmen can achieve social cohesion by drinking soda together, the roar of the Niagara 3000 mega-loo can be heard several blocks away, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Snow And Ice Caps's national animal is the White Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Snow And Ice Caps is ranked 63,448^th in the world and 3,365^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 69 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.