The Boreal Valley of Antarc is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Temmie with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, keen interest in outer space, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.138 billion Antarcians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arctowski. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Antarctic economy, worth a remarkable 1,515 trillion Rous a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 107,177 Rous, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Chess players with pacemakers and cochlear implants are treated with suspicion, the thrash metal version of the national anthem is topping charts, worship days have replaced sick days, and death is nobody's business. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Antarc's national animal is the Ermine, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Antarc is ranked 240,513^th in the world and 35^th in Arctic for Largest Black Market, with 230 billion Standard Monetary Units.