The Confederacy of Andavarast is a massive, genial nation, ruled by an albatross with a fair hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, avant-garde cinema, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.466 billion Albatrosses 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 Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Albatross Central. The average income tax rate is 71.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Diomedeidaean economy, worth 72.1 trillion albatrosses 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 49,182 albatrosses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, and the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in Albatross Central for fear of causing a fuss. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Andavarast's national animal is the albatross, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Diomedeidaeism.

Andavarast is ranked 92,021^st in the world and 2,115^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,634.02 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.