A Curious Synchronism!

A Frigid Flap-Hat Perched Upon Erde?

An Institute intern name of Fraulein Alice Torg--a climatologist-in-training--in editing the earlier story about the FRFR, struck upon the odd fact that the borders of that sprawling (in too many ways) nation match nearly precisely the outlines of the furthest reach of the Norge polar ice hat of the last-most Micro-Age (sometimes known colloquially as the Mice-Age). Institute scholars, alchemists, and meta-physicians are initially at a complete loss to understand why a thick sheet of ice should turn, Cinderella coach-to-pumpkin like, into a full-blown thick-headed nation. Former Republic of Former Russland of Former Ice Hat? Arcane and Pillogical theories are welcomed.