The Republic of Quandalestan is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its vat-grown people, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 175 million Quandalians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 67.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Quandalian economy, worth 3.12 trillion Quans 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, quite specialized black market in Cheese Exports, Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. 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 17,807 Quans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sections of the police receive paramilitary training, the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quandalestan's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quandalestan is ranked 212,997^th in the world and 257^th in Empires Forever United for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4.24 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.