The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 857 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 receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zandian. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.0%.

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 131,938 Zandollas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 381,557 per year while the poor average 36,175, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Racial and religious segregation has become rife as the various groups are loath to mingle, the Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish, social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians, and exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles. 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 58,434^th in the world and 1,286^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,881.5 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.