The Ivory Tower of Adantine is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Erenel Elkentar with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 9.413 billion Adanti are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adamant. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Adantian economy, worth a remarkable 1,699 trillion Hand-made Baskets 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 black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. 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 180,546 Hand-made Baskets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, and the nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Adantine's national animal is the друг, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Elkentarim.

Adantine is ranked 280,785^th in the world and 10,510^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.49 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.