The Federation of Andolel is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chief Minister Boon Faldor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.744 billion Andolelians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of High Culloch. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Andolelian economy, worth 330 trillion Andolel Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 120,624 Andolel Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, children who drop their ice cream are fined for littering, beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings, and it's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Andolel's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Andolel is ranked 56,252^nd in the world and 3,170^th in Balder for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,666.93 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.