The Federation of Andolel is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Boon Faldor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.634 billion Andolelians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of High Culloch. The average income tax rate is 82.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Andolelian economy, worth 171 trillion Andolel Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 104,674 Andolel Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, and older ladies are inundated with offers to help them cross the road. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Andolel's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is The Worship of Silly Goose.

Andolel is ranked 40,444^th in the world and 1,355^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.