The Empire of Mandara is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, ban on automobiles, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 14.648 billion Mandarans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Mandaran economy, worth a remarkable 1,995 trillion Golds a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 136,254 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government denies any involvement in the release of the Hot Load computer virus, government-sponsored WiFi allows farmers to rant about city folks in real time, boys are shocked by the revolutionary lesson that women are actually human, and Leader's former secretary was last sighted on her new yacht. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mandara's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Mandara is ranked 120,449^th in the world and 4^th in Astoria for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,298.23 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.