The Music of Friends of the sand is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.42 billion Friends of the sandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt government prioritizes Law & Order, although Administration, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 38.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Friends of the sandian economy, worth 163 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 25,536 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader can often be seen hanging around playgrounds chatting with the kids, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, the cold war against capitalism is growing chillier by the day, and mothers drive their college-graduate children to work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Friends of the sand's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Friends of the sand is ranked 281,806^th in the world and 96^th in Nevadia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.36 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.