The Protectorate of Antedo is a large, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 144 million Antedoans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.2%.

The very strong Antedoan economy, worth 8.76 trillion francs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 60,821 francs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 179,247 per year while the poor average 16,239, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, preschoolers practice disarming active shooters before naptime, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and the military will start wars with other nations on a lark. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Antedo's national animal is the crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Antedo is ranked 126,668^th in the world and 6,367^th in Balder for Most Developed, scoring 57.73 on the Human Development Index.