The Benevolent Glorius Queendom of Scorched Ice is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Queen Verglass with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 16.007 billion Scorched Iceans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brumal. The average income tax rate is 78.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Scorched Icean economy, worth a remarkable 1,269 trillion Coins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 79,312 Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations, riots have broken out as a water shortage threatens Scorched Ice's stability, and films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scorched Ice's national animal is the Frost Viper, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Scorched Ice is ranked 10,022^nd in the world and 522^nd in Osiris for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 4,559.49 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.