The Most Serene Republic of Gwandalis is a large, safe nation, renowned for its digital currency, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 89 million Gwandalas are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 53.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Gwandalisian economy, worth 4.41 trillion pfhenings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 49,575 pfhenings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone, 'I'm Coming Out' has shot to the top of the nation's music charts, there's a mortuary next to every Gwandalisian restaurant, and millions of Gwandalas are excellent swimmers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gwandalis's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gwandalis is ranked 127,794^th in the world and 2,621^st in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,502.45 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.