The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 926 million Zandosians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zandian. The average income tax rate is 20.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zandosi economy, worth 125 trillion Zandollas 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Soda Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 135,503 Zandollas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post, and hospitals have poor data security but send lots of bodies to be encrypted. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zandos's national animal is the D U C C, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zandos is ranked 60,481^st in the world and 1,334^th in The North Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 3,762.31 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.