The Empire of WinterAir is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 317 million SnowArims are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aeri sucks. The average income tax rate is 50.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped WinterAirian economy, worth 11.3 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,583 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Women who are caught shoplifting are sent home to their fathers with a patronising pat on the bottom, the latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press, WinterAir has designated Aeri sucks as its capital city, and kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. WinterAir's national animal is the polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

WinterAir is ranked 142,264^th in the world and 360^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 662.64 on the Gilded Widget Scale.