The Free Land of Andygiang is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Andygiang with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.429 billion Andygiangs are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Andygiang. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Andygiang economy, worth a remarkable 1,594 trillion Golds a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 248,025 Golds, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,440,354 per year while the poor average 20,236, a ratio of 71.2 to 1.

Drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", art criticism in Andygiang is scathingly destructive, military officers are given medals for disobeying orders, and baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Andygiang's national animal is the Goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Happiness.

Andygiang is ranked 56,866^th in the world and 2^nd in San Jose for Largest Black Market, with 11.1 trillion Standard Monetary Units.