The Fires of Gandaf is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Gandaf with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 29.568 billion Gandafians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oyn. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Gandafian economy, worth 794 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 26,882 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied dog, Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused, Gandaf has just been declared ruler of Gandaf in an international press conference, and Gandaf has designated Oyn as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gandaf's national animal is the dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Spiritism.

Gandaf is ranked 121,109^th in the world and 2^nd in Covenant for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 632.67 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.