The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, keen interest in outer space, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 887 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 10.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Zandosi economy, worth 119 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 135,207 Zandollas, with the richest citizens earning 9.1 times as much as the poorest.

A bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, there have been reports of people marrying housepets, Eggward The Third's handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars, and 90% of active duty ZAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones. 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 282,304^th in the world and 6,147^th in The North Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -14.83 on the Clooney Contribution Index.