The Lutheran Pirates of Lesser Nanders is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by High Bum Barry Bottoms with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, digital currency, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 1.141 billion Lesser Nandersians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nandor. The average income tax rate is 61.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nandersian economy, worth 175 trillion Nands a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 153,390 Nands, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The military sees national borders more as guidelines than absolutes, begun the Clone Wars have, for 25 Nands tourists can gawk at the site of national tragedy, and rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lesser Nanders's national animal is the Rattlesnake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Lutheranism.

Lesser Nanders is ranked 15,491^st in the world and 1^st in Yapistan for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 35,866.47 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.