The Federation of Andolel is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Boon Faldor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.68 billion Andolelians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of High Culloch. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Andolelian economy, worth 178 trillion Andolel Pounds 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 106,113 Andolel Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Andolelian athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump, not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", and the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Andolel's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is The Worship of Silly Goose.

Andolel is ranked 18,724^th in the world and 819^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,069.88 pounds of wildlife per square mile.