The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by High Memer Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, disturbing lack of elderly people, and daily referendums. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 5.633 billion Zandosians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zandia. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,559 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Soda Sales, Retail, 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 amazing 276,888 Zandollas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat, a positive GPA is all it takes to get an elite education, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Zandia Times is sold out. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zandos's national animal is the D U C C, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Hinduccism.

Zandos is ranked 302,952^nd in the world and 4,446^th in The North Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -15.8 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.