The Commonwealth of Sordandia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chieftain Tunsor Pinochatlin with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 5.064 billion Sordandians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sordantirturin. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sordandian economy, worth 743 trillion Sors a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 146,735 Sors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Weekends are spent tilting at windmills, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, movie references are legally admissible in court, and Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sordandia's national animal is the horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Sordandia is ranked 35,859^th in the world and 600^th in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 34.68 flags saluted per person per day.