The Federal Commonwealth of Polarea is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by First Minister Elysia Lynne with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 21.487 billion Polareans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Göteborg. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Polarean economy, worth a remarkable 5,024 trillion Polar Crowns 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 233,825 Polar Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

First Minister Elysia Lynne steals from the rich and gives to the needy, out-of-work actors say they can't complain, wandering Polareans are known for their one-track minds, and computers have been put in control of the economy to keep computers from controlling the economy. Crime is totally unknown. Polarea's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Polarea is ranked 16,929^th in the world and 16^th in Arctic for Largest Populations, with 21.5 billion capita.