The Empire of Andromeda Cordora is a large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, fear of technology, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 76 million Cordorans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Cordoran economy, worth 2.10 trillion Cordoran coins 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 black market in Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, Gambling, 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 27,599 Cordoran coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Babysitters are a thing of the past, whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls, streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, and hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Andromeda Cordora's national animal is the sea dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Andromeda Cordora is ranked 104,611^th in the world and 1,451^st in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.47 law-abiding acts per hour.