The Star-Crowned Snow Forests of Christmastide is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Father Nicholas Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.308 billion Merrymakers are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Christmas economy, worth a remarkable 1,576 trillion cheers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 152,920 cheers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor, the government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices, shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, and banks now use correct pronouns when evicting people from their houses. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Christmastide's national animal is the Reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christmas Time.

Christmastide is ranked 5,839^th in the world and 6^th in Fjord for Highest Food Quality, scoring 196.23 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.