The Pandemic of Pandoria is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Marc with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 29.513 billion Pandorians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panda. The average income tax rate is 70.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Pandorian economy, worth 702 trillion Stars 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, quite specialized black market in Retail, Tourism, Information Technology, and Automobile 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 23,781 Stars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work, preschoolers practice disarming active shooters before naptime, Marc has just been declared ruler of Pandoria in an international press conference, and Pandoria has designated Panda as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pandoria's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cynism.

Pandoria is ranked 300,172^nd in the world and 2^nd in Water Isles for Most Developed, scoring 49.7 on the Human Development Index.