The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, deadly medical pandemics, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 838 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. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Zandosi economy, worth 110 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 131,703 Zandollas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 443,506 per year while the poor average 28,976, a ratio of 15.3 to 1.

Traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, and government adverts say that twelve lashes a day keeps divine wrath at bay. 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 77,153^rd in the world and 2,075^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,770.47 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.