The New Zandarian Colony of Oldest Zander is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Alekzander Tosh with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 9.447 billion Oldest Zanderians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zander City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.4%.

The powerhouse Oldest Zanderian economy, worth 829 trillion Zanders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 87,753 Zanders, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 248,102 per year while the poor average 24,830, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country, and paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Oldest Zander's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Oldest Zander is ranked 116,242^nd in the world and 13^th in The Empires And Republics Of Power for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,862.34 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.