The Most Serene Republic of Gwandalis is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 114 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 53.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Gwandalisian economy, worth 5.65 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 49,518 pfhenings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Millions of Gwandalas are excellent swimmers, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, a video of Leader wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Wolf. 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 40,455^th in the world and 1,002^nd in the South Pacific for Safest, scoring 105.67 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.