The Infinite Ice Bear of Petronellania is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Ice Bear with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, frequent executions, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 8.336 billion Nellans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Clark Aquilonia and Valeria. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Nellan economy, worth a remarkable 2,583 trillion Nellan Dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 309,939 Nellan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisons in Petronellania are the summer homes of murderers, windows in Clark Aquilonia and Valeria don't have much of a view, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", and stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petronellania's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Petronellania is ranked 248^th in the world and 20^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 99.74 on the Human Development Index.