The Protectoral Zone of Autonomous Trans-Antarctica is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by High Senate with an iron fist, and notable for its flagrant waste-dumping, parental licensing program, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.662 billion Antarcticans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Education, although Industry, Administration, and Defense are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Basisstadt. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Antarctican economy, worth a remarkable 2,361 trillion IDCS 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 amazing 417,028 IDCS, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Out-of-work soldiers and bureaucrats can often be found camped out in front of manservant academies, dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, and practising saying 'how now brown cow' is an essential part of holiday planning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Autonomous Trans-Antarctica's national animal is the Orca, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Atheism.

Autonomous Trans-Antarctica is ranked 31,237^th in the world and 769^th in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 37.61 flags saluted per person per day.