The United Empire of Pan Polar Confederacy is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Grand Emperor Louis XII Augustus with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 8.112 billion Polarians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ostia Regio. The average income tax rate is 66.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Polarian economy, worth 977 trillion Polarian Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 120,541 Polarian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Polarian delegation to the World Assembly is having a hard time convincing people that international law will "pay for itself somehow...", the comic book series 'Grand Emperor Louis XII Augustus and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan, and Grand Emperor Louis XII Augustus is strangely popular with male politicians' wives. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pan Polar Confederacy's national animal is the Polar Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Divine Basilae Throne of Pan-Polaria.

Pan Polar Confederacy is ranked 89,446^th in the world and 3,150^th in Balder for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,302.14 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.