The Ivory Tower of Adantine is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Erenel Elkentar with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, soft-spoken computers, and enforced nudity. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 9.399 billion Adanti are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adamant. The average income tax rate is 71.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Adantian economy, worth a remarkable 1,694 trillion Hand-made Baskets 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. 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 impressive 180,273 Hand-made Baskets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is forced to pander to the will of every fruitcake politician, political candidates are regularly blocked for minor convictions from their teenage years, government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals, and censors protect the public from lewd images of Bigtopians in duffel coats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Adantine's national animal is the друг, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Elkentarim.

Adantine is ranked 2,754^th in the world and 117^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 223 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.