The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, ubiquitous missile silos, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 863 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 prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zandian. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Zandosi economy, worth 113 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 131,946 Zandollas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 381,580 per year while the poor average 36,177, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

The Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish, social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians, exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles, and people boast about their low income on their dating profiles. 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 285,639^th in the world and 6,257^th in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 5.34 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.