The Republic of Slandara is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 278 million Slandarans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 10.9%.

The strong Slandaran economy, worth 18.8 trillion deniers a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,746 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts, multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks, fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, and adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère. Crime is totally unknown. Slandara's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Slandara is ranked 161,303^rd in the world and 4,008^th in the Rejected Realms for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 86.06 on the Clooney Contribution Index.