The United Socialist States of El Sandor is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 548 million Sandoraños 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Sandor. The average income tax rate is 80.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Sandoraño economy, worth 42.5 trillion Nawats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is 77,518 Nawats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, 'Totally Not Partisan News' is a line item on the government budget, nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, and the news is showing footage of Leader bullying an old man to the point of tears. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Sandor's national animal is the Coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

El Sandor is ranked 319,205^th in the world and 721^st in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.