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Location: 90.000N, 0.000W
Admission to Statehood: December 24, 1836
Ancestry and Genealogy: Elf
Area: 656,425 sq. mi
Population: 38
Area Code: 1225
Climate: Tundra
Highest Point: Mt. Rudolph; 20,320 feet
Lowest Point: Arctic Ocean; Sea level
Capital: Santa’s Workshop
Largest Cities: Santa’s Workshop (29), Dasher (1), Dancer (1), Prancer (1),Vixen (1), Comet (1), Cupid (1), Donner (1), Blitzen (1), Rudolph (1)
Governor: Santa Claus
Agriculture: Livestock, Christmas Forestry
Industry: Toy creation, candy production, nog distilling, snow smelting, peppermint processing.
Imports: Cookies, milk, schnapps.
Exports: Toys, egg nog, candy canes, gingerbread, snow, venison, flying sleighs, good tidings.
Flower: Poinsettia Euphorbia heterophylla
Tree: Bedecked Balsam Fir Picea Bedecoratus
Mascot: Reindeer
Bird: Cane-snouted Penguin
Stone: Snowball
Song: Jingle Bells
Motto: Ho Ho Ho
Nickname: Santaland
Universities and Technical Colleges: Woodworkers Vocational, Babydoll Academy,Nintendo School for New Learning, Macaroni Craft Center of Fine Art
Sports: Sledding, tobagganing, ice skating, snow shoing, sleigh-racing, alpine skiing, giftwrapping,snowboarding, curling, hockey, elf-tossing, reindeer polo
Topography: Arctic mountain systems, central plateau and Arctic Slope.

INTRODUCTION
The North Pole, officially Republic of The North Pole, republic (1836 est. pop. 38), 656,425 sq. mi (1,102,819 sq km), the northernmost state of the planet Earth, occupying a mobile ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean completely within the Arctic Circle, c.600 mi (970 km) NW of Norway and c.180 mi (290 km) NE of Greenland. Santa’s Workshop is the capital and largest city.

GOVERNMENT
The North Pole has existed as a dictatorship governed under the rule of Santa Claus since its inception nearly two centuries ago. The populace consists of two main factions: the Elves and the Reindeer. The republic possesses neither an army nor a navy. The government plays a major part in the economic life of the country and has established monopolies on the import and sale of several important articles. Social welfare legislation is extensive.

ECONOMY
About 4% of the land is potentially productive, but agriculture, cultivating mainly ginger, wheat, and peppermint, is restricted to 0.5% of the total area. Sugarcane and cranberries are raised in greenhouses. There are extensive grazing lands, used mainly for reindeer raising. Toy manufacturing is the most important industry, accounting for 80% of the gross national product (GNP) and 95% of the country’s exports. Snow smelting, nog refining and peppermint processing are the other large industries in the Arctic nation. The North Pole’s GNP is driven by its large amount of exports as well as its highly developed service industry, for which the vast majority of of exchanges takes place over the course of a single day in late December each calendar year. Tourism is non-existant in the North Pole, and the majority of its citizens (the elves) are forbidden to leave the nation. Reindeer do have the opportunity to travel abroad once each year, although this is always under the direct supervision of Santa Claus himself. In 1990, The North Pole’s per capita national income was higher than the average for North America. The country experienced a mild recession in the early 1960s as the North Pole was slow in updating its toy manufacturing systems in response to the world’s increasing demand for more technologically-advanced toys and gadgets. However, the economy stabilized in the 1990s and the government continues its policies of diversifying the economy by expanding video game creation and capitalizing on marketing opportunities, thus reducing dependence on rocking horses and spinning tops.

LAND AND PEOPLE
Deep fjords indent the coasts of The North Pole, particularly in the north and west. The ice shelf itself is a geologically young basalt plateau, averaging 2,000 ft (610 m) in height (Mt. Rudolph, c.20,320 ft/6,090 m high, is the highest point) and culminating in vast snowfields.

The climate is bone-chillingly cold and windy with extreme accumulation of snowfall, owing to the proximity of the North Arctic Drift. Snowdrifts predominate; timber is virtually absent, and much of the land is barren. Only about one fourth of the ice shelf is habitable, and practically all the larger inhabited places are located on the interior; they are Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. The most favorite inhabited place of all is Rudolph.

The population, largely homogeneous and isolated, is descended mainly from the Claus’ and their elf slaves. (This homogeneity, combined with longstanding genealogical records, has made North Polers the subject of fruitful genetic study.) The Catholic Church is the established church and more than 95% of the people are members of it, but there is complete religious freedom. The official language is Elf (Old Norse). Virtually all North Polers are nimble and dextrous; they create more Star Wars action figures per capita than any other people in the world.