The Kingdom of Kaldfjell is a tiny, cultured nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 14 million Kaldfjellers 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Kaldfjellian economy, worth 269 billion Marks 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining. Average income is 19,264 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, a stitch in time could see you serving nine, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, and Kaldfjellers are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kaldfjell's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kaldfjell is ranked 318,051^st in the world and 228^th in Fifth Empire for Largest Populations, with 14.0 million capita.