The Chaotic Nightmare Nation of Zandos is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by Eggward The Third with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 802 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 juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zandian. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Zandosi economy, worth 103 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 128,583 Zandollas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 431,549 per year while the poor average 28,431, a ratio of 15.2 to 1.

Sex changes are routinely performed at Zandos's hospitals, D U C C is one of the most popular forenames in Zandos, male politicians lose their jobs for staring too long at their female counterparts, and no one is quite sure what many government officials look like. 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 46,222^nd in the world and 1,500^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.