The Axolotl Empire of Andrendia is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Andrea Oloto VII with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 11.331 billion Andreians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Andreopolis. The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Andreian economy, worth a remarkable 1,930 trillion Bricks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 170,392 Bricks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

More sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people, the nation sends criminals home to think about what they did, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, and new regulations have put a halt to monkey business. Crime is totally unknown. Andrendia's national animal is the Axolotl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Azaelism.

Andrendia is ranked 13,180^th in the world and 296^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 377 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.