The Most Serene Republic of Gwandalis is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 153 million Gwandalas are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 57.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Gwandalisian economy, worth 7.52 trillion pfhenings 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 49,122 pfhenings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Millions of Gwandalas are excellent swimmers, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, a video of Leader wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Wolf. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gwandalis's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gwandalis is ranked 55,499^th in the world and 963^rd in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 25.24 flags saluted per person per day.