The Holy Lucky Christmas of Intser is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.944 billion Intserians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Intserian economy, worth 485 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 98,219 Candy Cane Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An endless multinational bureaucracy connects the Red Bloc, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, courtrooms can be a little sketchy, and the government pours millions of Candy Cane Gold Bars into rehabilitation programs annually. Crime is totally unknown. Intser's national animal is the bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Athyism.

Intser is ranked 43,722^nd in the world and 1,143^rd in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 76.25 law-abiding acts per hour.