The All-Time MSU Football Great of Big Man Andersen is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, democratic population of 4.139 billion Big Man Andersenians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dillon. The average income tax rate is 20.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Big Man Andersenian economy, worth 198 trillion Yards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 48,039 Yards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Only the richest get to see out of their windows, the internal market is thriving, attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams, and foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Big Man Andersen will pay them to stop. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Big Man Andersen's national animal is the Bobcat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Big Man Andersen is ranked 278,683^rd in the world and 11^th in Bannedlands for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.68 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.