The Transitional Regime of Spendula is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Akleus I with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.633 billion Spendulese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Spendulan City. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Spendulan economy, worth 220 trillion Spenduals 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. 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 an impressive 135,009 Spenduals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop), the legal system for the political class is completely separate from the one for normal citizens, planespotters are emigrating in droves, and many are asking why the latest naval vessel is named after Saint Bartholomeus the Many Handed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spendula's national animal is the Starrier, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Spendualism.

Spendula is ranked 14,716^th in the world and 3^rd in Gesunda for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 9,374.79 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.