The People's Republic of Equality on ThickIce is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 775 million Equality on ThickIceans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 64.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Equality on ThickIcean economy, worth 38.2 trillion Pingus a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 49,256 Pingus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction, giant beards and handlebar moustaches are increasingly popular, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Equality on ThickIce City. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Equality on ThickIce's national animal is the Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Equality on ThickIce is ranked 288,704^th in the world and 43^rd in Antisipation Refounded for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -33.91 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.